"And the Lord said to Abraham, 'Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Shall I surely bear a child, since I am old?’ Is anything too hard for the Lord? At the appointed time I will return to you, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.' But Sarah denied it, saying, 'I did not laugh,' for she was afraid. And He said, 'No, but you did laugh!"
"Is anything too hard for me as a human?" Yes. Life is overwhelming at times. Situations that we face, self imposed and those imposed upon us, are often unfathomable in scope. For humans, everything is too hard on occasion. But that is not the case for Creator God, the Almighty, All sufficient, All powerful One!
God is promising to bring life from a dead womb. To them, it was an impossibility, but God is the God who makes possible that which we once thought impossible. Is your situation too hard for the Lord? That child, that spouse, that job, that lack of job. Which fits in the category "Too hard for the Lord?" The answer, if you know even a little bit about God is "none!"
Will you trust that situation to Him again today? Yeah, it might make you laugh to think that it could happen and God sees that laughter. In the end, my part of His miraculous deeds will be the unbelief that He worked in spite of! His work will be done to show His faithfulness, not mine. Thankfully, He didn't need Sarah's faith and He certainly doesn't need mine to be the God of the impossible!
Genesis 18:13-16
God gives a direct word to Abraham for Sarah. "Is anything too hard for the Lord?" Maybe it's a question that you should ponder today. For Sarah, she was an 89 year old, post-menopausal woman, who was going to bear a child in about a year, through completely conventional means! That seems fairly unbelieveable, don't you think? "Is anything too hard for me as a human?" Yes. Life is overwhelming at times. Situations that we face, self imposed and those imposed upon us, are often unfathomable in scope. For humans, everything is too hard on occasion. But that is not the case for Creator God, the Almighty, All sufficient, All powerful One!
God is promising to bring life from a dead womb. To them, it was an impossibility, but God is the God who makes possible that which we once thought impossible. Is your situation too hard for the Lord? That child, that spouse, that job, that lack of job. Which fits in the category "Too hard for the Lord?" The answer, if you know even a little bit about God is "none!"
Will you trust that situation to Him again today? Yeah, it might make you laugh to think that it could happen and God sees that laughter. In the end, my part of His miraculous deeds will be the unbelief that He worked in spite of! His work will be done to show His faithfulness, not mine. Thankfully, He didn't need Sarah's faith and He certainly doesn't need mine to be the God of the impossible!
