Interesting sermon last night. Our senior pastor has been doing a series on failures in the Bible. Of course David and Peter immediately come to mind, but he concluded the series with Sarah.
Sarah waited a long time to have a child and thought she would never have one. Of course, she was 90, Abraham was 100. When God told them He would come back in a year and she would have a son, Sarah laughed.
It was not the failure to have children that was Sarah's failure, it was the failure to believe God. In God's Word, we find all kinds of promise for the future, including the promise that "for men, these things are impossible but with God, all things are possible." This is no trivial statement. All things means everything, all things means whatever it is that He should happen to promise us.
The immediate applicability is to our current world political and economic situation. For some of us, there are some pretty good trials. But God promised He would never leave us nor forsake us and that all things work together for the good of believers. We should take the lead from the story of Sarah, and never doubt His word.
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