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Then the LORD said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Will I really have a child, now that I am old?’ Is anything too hard for the LORD ? I will return to you at the appointed time next year and Sarah will have a son.” ~ Genesis 18:13-14
We think that since people in the Bible were pre-modern, superstitious people that it was easy for them to believe. The Scripture actually paints a different picture. We find Sarah’s laughter to be a nervous reaction to a promise from God that was preposterous. Have a child at her age? Impossible! Yet when Sarah had her child, she named him Isaac – which means “laughter”.
God is in the business of turning our laughter of skepticism to the laughter of joy, because for God, all things are possible.
Today’s commentary by Dave Whitehead, Senior Pastor, GraceNYC.org
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