Laughing at God

By my count in Genesis 12-18 the Lord has promised Abram (and Sarai?) six separate times that they will inaugurate a great nation with much land and innumerable offspring. They moved from Ur (near Babylon) to the land of Canaan because they believed this promise. But years and years have gone by and they are now elderly, well past the years of pregnancies and childbirth. Abraham asks God about the promises because no child has come. 

Imagine what happens to Sarah’s faith in God’s promises when you see the physical/biological impossibility of a pregnancy or birth of a son.  

Moses tells us how Abraham and Sarah respond to the fifth and notably, the sixth time the LORD comes and this time he states the baby boy will be arriving soon. Laughter ensues; its preposterous and painfully comical to regard this prediction as true. Come Sunday to hear God’s response to her and all of us.