SHALL I INDEED BEAR A CHILD?

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Thursday, December 1

Genesis 18:9-15

SHALL I INDEED BEAR A CHILD?

So Sarah laughed to herself as she thought, ‘After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?’ Genesis 18:12, NIV

God specialises in turning impossible situations around. This is what He did in the case of Sarah who was barren. She and her husband had advanced in age at the time they entertained angels as visitors and through that, God visited them.


When Sarah received the news however, she doubted and expressed unbelief as she laughed at the announcement of the visitors. Abraham expressed similar reaction in Genesis 17:17. This might be expected because they saw Sarah’s barrenness at old age as insurmountable. It is impossible and unnecessary to hide our feelings from God. We must learn from this experience of Abraham and Sarah that it can never be over until it is over. Age or other human limitations can never constrain God from doing what He is set to do. You shall indeed have that joy, your age notwithstanding.

• Birthday Blessing: Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not. Jeremiah 33:3

RBT Passage: Daniel 3; 2 Peter 2

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false?. . . If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. - Blaise Pascal