As Promised!

As Promised!

Genesis 21:1 KJV

[1] And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken.

What do you do when it appears that God has forgotten you? What do you do when you were sure that God made a promise to you, but with the passage of time, it appears that the promise no longer applies to you? This must have been the experience of the Sarah, the wife of Abraham. At the time God spoke to Abraham, asking him to leave his father's house and go to an unknown place at the time, it must have taken a strong and certain faith for him to take his family and move from the known to the unknown. We know now that Abraham obeyed because we now read about it, but it could have been easy at a time when walking with God was not popular. 

Abraham had a promise from God that he would be the father of many nations. We know that being a father means having your own child. It means that the many nations would start from your own offspring, but here was the man and wife, both getting past the ages of childbearing. Both had passed 90 and 80 years respectively, and there was no sign that the promise was even still being considered by God. Well, man's expectations or doubts have never limited God's capability and ability to fulfil His promises. He does not need my permission or authorisation to be God. Time does not limit Him the way it does for mortal man. 

In His own time, He makes all things beautiful. In His own time, He works out His perfect will. In His own time, He fulfills His promises. When He says a thing, He stakes His name and reputation on the integrity of His Word. He can be trusted, but He must be trusted to come through in His own time, not in line with our own expectations. Time as we measure it has no impact on Him. A day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like a day to Him. He stopped the sun from going down for a whole day, simply because a child of His asked. He added 15 more years to a man's life because the man asked. His mercy applies across several generations. He is the Omnipotent God. 

When it was His time, He visited Sarah again. He had sent His Word about 25 yesrs before it was fulfilled, and even the people involved had tried to help God speed up the process. For God, His Word cannot return to Him void. The power of His Word cannot be resisted by anything or anyone. When it was His time, He carried out His promise, and the one who had been mocked as barren became the mother to Isaac. The promise came to pass, even if it did not happen the way Abraham and Sarah wanted it to be. Take comfort from the legacy of truth that God has laid down: He always keeps His promises. Trust Him; your future is secure in the hands of an eternal God. God's time of favour is here.