![]() Waiting on God’s Timing – Lack of Trust in GodĪt the end of the day, it all boiled down to Sarah’s lack of trust. The promises of God were there, but, let’s be honest, she felt she had more power to make it happen than God did. She wanted a child more than anything and in her limited vision it wasn’t happening. Now, while I am absolutely certain that I am wise enough to know not to EVER make an offer to my husband like Sarai made to Abram (then re-named Abraham by God), I can most definitely understand where my dear ancestor was coming from. Sometimes when things happen (or don’t happen) that threaten to derail MY plans, I feel like I have to step in and take action. I can relate to Sarai (then re-named Sarah by God). I have a difficult struggle with patience (as anyone who is around me at Christmas time can attest to) and waiting on God’s timing has never been my strong suit, although it is a spiritual discipline I am working on. We have all heard the saying, “patience is a virtue” but it is not my virtue. “That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God rather, the children of the promise are counted as seed.” tlv Waiting on God’s Timing – Patience is Not My Virtue The Bible tells us, in Romans 9:6-8, that Ishmael, while loved by God and given the promise of being a great nation, was not THE son of promise but the child of the flesh the child conceived through Sarai’s distrust. He willingly listened to his wife and went in to Hagar and, by him, she conceived a son, Ishmael. She put her own desire ahead of God’s plan.Ībram, in his own act of disobedience reminiscent of Adam, did not reject his wife’s plea. Again, it isn’t necessarily that Sarai doubted God’s ability to bring this to pass through her.īut, she was his wife! Nowhere had God commanded Abram to take another! And yet instead of waiting on God’s timing, she took matters into her own hands. cjbĭespite this covenant, Sarai, his wife, did not trust God to bring it to pass through her. Then he brought him outside and said, “Look up at the sky, and count the stars - if you can count them! Your descendants will be that many!” He believed in Adonai, and he credited it to him as righteousness. Now, one important thing about this situation that Sarai put herself in is that she was fully aware that God had entered into covenant with Abram in Genesis 15: 5-6: ![]() It was after Avram had lived ten years in the land of Kena‘an that Sarai Avram’s wife took Hagar the Egyptian, her slave-girl, and gave her to Avram her husband to be his wife. Avram had sexual relations with Hagar, and she conceived.īut when she became aware that she was pregnant, she looked on her mistress with contempt.” cjb Maybe I’ll be able to have children through her.” Avram listened to what Sarai said. But she had an Egyptian slave-girl named Hagar so Sarai said to Avram, “Here now, Adonai has kept me from having children so go in and sleep with my slave-girl. ![]() “Now Sarai Avram’s wife had not borne him a child. In her desperation, in this intense desire to give Abram this child of promise, she gives her Egyptian servant Hagar to Abram to act as a surrogate of sorts, so that she may have a child through her. But it appeared to her, in her old age, that it was just not to be. Sarai had been wanting a child for a long time! She yearned to give her husband Abram a son. 4 Waiting on God’s Timing Means We Lean on Him and Not Our Own Understanding Waiting on God’s Timing – Child of Promise
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