God is better that octomom

One of them said, “I’m coming back about this time next year. 

When I arrive, your wife Sarah will have a son.” 

Sarah was listening at the tent opening, just behind the man.

Abraham and Sarah were old by this time, very old. 

Sarah was far past the age for having babies. 

Sarah laughed within herself, 

“An old woman like me? 

Get pregnant? 

With this old man of a husband?”

God said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh saying, ‘Me? Have a baby? 

An old woman like me?

’ Is anything too hard for God?

 I’ll be back about this time next year and Sarah will have a baby.”

Sarah lied. She said, “I didn’t laugh,” because she was afraid.

But he said, “Yes you did; you laughed.”

                Genesis 9:16-18 (The Message)

This passage may be pretty familiar with some. "Is anything too hard for GOD" is comforting. We chant it like a talisman when times get tough. It's like a good luck charm when our team is loosing, or we can't find a parking space up close at the mall. 

To be fair, for many it is an anchor when hell hits full force; a phone call from a policeman, news of another school shooting, one more time a spouse is hit. Yes, God is sovereign at all times.  

But that should grab us here misses most of us due to modern translations. It may read something like this: 

Now she had no more eggs left in her. 

She was post-menopausal and she knew it!

Her monthly cycle had stopped so long ago

she had forgotten all about it. 

Add to the mix:

1) God had promised that she would have a son long ago

2) God had promised her husband they would have many, many, many children

3) Not having a son then was a huge social disgrace

So you see she was waiting, waiting, waiting for many, many, many years after God's first promises. Around seventy years to be exact. 

So she was living like a follower but not really trusting on the inside. Now remember, she was waiting. 

And God did what he promised in a way only he could do. 

He literally placed life in her where there was no life.

It is of little wonder she laughed. 

Yeah right! A baby now! 

I've been waiting for the "check in the mail" for over 70 years!

I get laughed at! My husband said you promised

So I waited, and waited and waited

And now you say a baby?!

I DON"T HAVE ANY EGGS!

How is that gonna happen?!

Answer:

I am God. 

And so the child was named Issac, "Son of Laughter"....because God always has the last say. 

And what he says, he does. 

Later he would tell another woman that she would have a baby too. It was was impossible as the first time. She was a virgin. 

She didn't laugh though, she trusted and said "so be it".

Where are you today? How are you talking to God? 

Disbelief, or trust? 

Life from death, joy from ashes, light from dark...

he alone can do it...and he delights in doing so