Today's reading was extra meaningful to me, (for many personal reasons) because Isaac, the promised child, was finally born! Over and over God had promised Abraham and Sara that they would have a son, and yet the years went by one after another and still no son was born. Not only did it seem more and more humanly improbable, but it got downright impossible -- at least as far as Sara was concerned. And yet Gen. 18:14 reminded us, "Is anything too hard for the Lord?" Nope! Nothing is too hard for the Lord!
Although I've read this story time and time again, each time I read it afresh, it gives me new courage and hope and trust in our Amazing God, because... if He kept His Word for Abraham, I know He will keep His Word for me. God always keeps His Word. His Word cannot return to Him void, it cannot fail to come true. It's impossible...in fact just as impossible as it was for Sara NOT to have a son... because God said it was going to happen and nothing could stop that, not even her age or the deadness of her womb.
What are you waiting on God to do in your life? What has He promised that you've not yet seen fulfilled?
If we know we are praying according to the will of God (1 John 5:14), instead of looking at our feelings, our circumstances, or the discouraging situations we often find ourselves in, let's look up in faith knowing that God's promises to us WILL be fulfilled! We don't know how, we don't know when...but since we have the promise, we have the assurance of the gift. And in God's perfect time, the miracle Issac we are waiting for will be born.
As my favorite author writes, "Whatever gift He promises, is in the promise itself. 'The seed is the word of God.' Luke 8:11. As surely as the oak is in the acorn, so surely is the gift of God in His promise. If we receive the promise, we have the gift." Education, p. 253
There are so many promises I could share with this story... but let me close with this one, which also gives me such courage.
"And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof." Josh 23:14
Yes, someday when we get to heaven (and many times even in this life too), we will look back and we will see, God truly did keep His Word. Not one thing He said has failed. It ALL came to pass!
Tomorrow's reading: Gen. 22-23, Psalms 5-6
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