In this
well-known passage, God reaffirms his promise to Abraham that he will have many
descendents. God makes this amazing promise even though it seems impossible
because Abraham’s wife Sarah is too old to have children. In the previous
chapter, we read that Abraham and Sarah had doubted this promise and made their
own plan B, in which Abraham instead had a son with Hagar, Sarah’s maidservant.
Despite the fact that they had doubted God and tried to hurry things along
through their own alternative plan, God still reaffirms his original amazing
promise to Abraham in this chapter. Not only that, but Abraham and Sarah are
listed in the New Testament in Hebrews 11, as examples of people of great
faith. This passage is a real
encouragement to us when we’re finding it difficult to wait for something to
happen and are getting impatient for God to act. We can take heart that we’re
not the first to struggle with this issue, as this passage shows that even
those with great faith, have struggled with it. And it seems from Abraham and
Sarah’s example, that even if we get disheartened with waiting, try to take
things into our own hands and come up with our own ‘plan B’s’, God is still
faithful and will fulfil his promises to us, in his own time and in his own
way.
DISCLAIMER The views expressed in the meditations are those of individual members of the church community who contributed, and are not necessarily those of the chaplaincy of Holy Trinity Brussels Pro-Cathedral. Above picture Jesus Appears to Mary Magdelene
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