Genesis Eighteen….(v.1-15) God's Time had Come.
Verses 1-15….
What a lovely picture of hospitality we have here! The LORD appeared to Abraham in the form of three travellers passing by, the Trinity in human form…..
We wonder how Abraham heard God's messages the other times! Notice how readily Abraham met them….he RAN to meet them and bowed down to the ground. How quickly would we bring God into our house? Would we want to put certain things out of sight first?
Abraham took them inside and then hurried to Sarah's tennt…"Quick, do some baking for lunch", he said. Then he RAN to the herd and got a fat calf and HASTED to kill and dress it. Meantime, the visitors were sitting in the shade of the tree waiting. How patient God is with us!
Sarah was curious about these visitors and she sat in the door of her tent nearby to hear what they had to say. She could hardly believe her ears! "Sarah will have a son", they were saying. Sarah laughed to herself when she heard this (perhaps rather bitterly)….she was now 90! Too late now. Horrified she heard one of the men say, "Why did Sarah laugh? Is anything too hard for God?"
She tried to cover up. "No, I didn't laugh", she said.
"You did!" He said. We can never hide anything from God. But in spite of that, Sarah gathered herself up to believe that this would indeed happen. (Hebrews 11:11)
God promised Abraham once more, While Sarah listened at the door,
"Sarah's son will come next year, I'll do it surely, never fear"
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