Worth the Wait?
Is anything worth the wait? Let me tell you a story I pray that most if not all of you are familiar with. A story about waiting. Ladies and Gentlemen, I bring you Sarah and Abraham!
Abraham had faith in the Lord that I cannot even fathom. He and Sarah had be married for a long time and she could not conceive a child. The Lord kept telling Abraham to trust in Him and his descendants would be more numerous than the stars. That's a lot of promise for someone we can't even see. How could Abraham believe this? Crazy, right? And it puts a ton of pressure on her to produce an heir, not to mention performance anxiety.
Sarah also had a hard time, she was having a problem bearing his children. She told Abraham that since she couldn't conceive he should have one with her slave. Ok pause. I have problems trusting people and this one action would have pushed me over the edge. It had to have taken guts. Yes I know times were different and men sometimes had more than one wife. But still, it had to have taken a lot of trust in love to say something like that to your husband.
I wonder if her reasoning behind giving up her husband in that way came from the fact that Abraham had so much trust in the Lord that he would have a child. She wanted to make him happy so she told him to take her slave. I would think it was be cause she doubted the Lord's promise and so she sacrificed her happiness to make her husband's wish come true.
Abraham still had faith though, and even after having a son with Sarah's slave, he believed the Lord would make good on His promise. She doubted the Lord. Doubt is a big thing that happens to us in life. I'm guilty of doubting Him in life.
Everything in life happens on God's time. We all need to believe in His timing. Life is not perfect and everything may not fall into place in the way that we want it too. I mean look, eventually Sarah and Abraham had a son, Isaac.
My point, believe that your time is still yet to come and yes, it is worth the wait.
Stay Tuned!
Abraham had faith in the Lord that I cannot even fathom. He and Sarah had be married for a long time and she could not conceive a child. The Lord kept telling Abraham to trust in Him and his descendants would be more numerous than the stars. That's a lot of promise for someone we can't even see. How could Abraham believe this? Crazy, right? And it puts a ton of pressure on her to produce an heir, not to mention performance anxiety.
Sarah also had a hard time, she was having a problem bearing his children. She told Abraham that since she couldn't conceive he should have one with her slave. Ok pause. I have problems trusting people and this one action would have pushed me over the edge. It had to have taken guts. Yes I know times were different and men sometimes had more than one wife. But still, it had to have taken a lot of trust in love to say something like that to your husband.
I wonder if her reasoning behind giving up her husband in that way came from the fact that Abraham had so much trust in the Lord that he would have a child. She wanted to make him happy so she told him to take her slave. I would think it was be cause she doubted the Lord's promise and so she sacrificed her happiness to make her husband's wish come true.
Abraham still had faith though, and even after having a son with Sarah's slave, he believed the Lord would make good on His promise. She doubted the Lord. Doubt is a big thing that happens to us in life. I'm guilty of doubting Him in life.
Everything in life happens on God's time. We all need to believe in His timing. Life is not perfect and everything may not fall into place in the way that we want it too. I mean look, eventually Sarah and Abraham had a son, Isaac.
My point, believe that your time is still yet to come and yes, it is worth the wait.
Stay Tuned!
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