Last night, my daughter Hannah and her family were over. I had my Bible out and was going to share with my son-in-law Matt some things out of Genesis 21. Cheri and I had read that chapter on Friday morning. Coincidence! Matt and Hannah had just the day before been listening to that chapter on tape.
Genesis 21 is a great chapter.
God's promise to Abraham had come true. Abraham, age 100, and Sarah his wife, age 90, became parents.
Two things we should note.
First the timing was set by God.
Second, the impossible happened. That is why we know it was of God.
God expects us to handle ordinary things on our own. These things are always in the realm of the possible. But God does not expect us to always dwell in the realm of the possible. That is why he gives us vision.
Abraham had disappointed God. Abraham had his thoughts that were very different from God's. Abraham had taken action on his own. In the second half of Genesis 21 we find that Abraham is trying to deal with the results of not trusting God to do what He had said He would do.
George Washington Carver was a poor black man, the son of slaves. Carver took God's promise in Jeremiah 33:3. The rest is history. With God's help Carver discovered many things about peanuts and their uses that modern science had not been able to do.
Oh that we would seek God's will and that we would wait on God's timing.
David Sneed
Genesis 21 is a great chapter.
God's promise to Abraham had come true. Abraham, age 100, and Sarah his wife, age 90, became parents.
Two things we should note.
First the timing was set by God.
Second, the impossible happened. That is why we know it was of God.
God expects us to handle ordinary things on our own. These things are always in the realm of the possible. But God does not expect us to always dwell in the realm of the possible. That is why he gives us vision.
Abraham had disappointed God. Abraham had his thoughts that were very different from God's. Abraham had taken action on his own. In the second half of Genesis 21 we find that Abraham is trying to deal with the results of not trusting God to do what He had said He would do.
George Washington Carver was a poor black man, the son of slaves. Carver took God's promise in Jeremiah 33:3. The rest is history. With God's help Carver discovered many things about peanuts and their uses that modern science had not been able to do.
Oh that we would seek God's will and that we would wait on God's timing.
David Sneed
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