Monday, September 9, 2013

I was away at a cottage for the weekend, and there was no internet access and no phone signal, so I didn't do the devotional for the weekend.  I am carrying on from where I left off.

Nothing - no matter how improbable, no matter how impossible it is to see, no matter how much it goes against everything we know - nothing is too hard for the Lord. - She Reads Truth: Women in the Bible, Part 1

Abram is now called Abraham and Sarai is now Sarah.  Not only has the Lord changed their names, He has promised them something that for all human understanding seemed impossible!  After all, Abraham is 100 years old and Sarah is only ten years younger.  Have you ever heard of a ninety year old woman giving birth to a child?  The only 90 year old mother I've ever heard of is Sarah.  It seems that it is impossible, and yet, God caused it to happen.  When we think that something can't happen, we tend to laugh at its absurdity, just as Sarah and Abraham laughed when they were promised a child in their old age.  Sarah had already taken things into her own hands and tried to fulfill God's promise to Abraham through her slave Hagar, but God was going to carry out what seemed like an impossible plan anyway.  We may not understand what God is doing, and we may feel as though we have messed our lives up beyond repair, but God isn't going to throw us away.  He's not finished with us(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=typAqPJ-Zn8), and we're never beyond repair(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laIzsL0waTQ).

-Meg

-God is bigger! He is so much bigger than anything in our lives.

-"Because, with God, just like that, everything can change" - She Reads Truth: Women in the Bible, Part 1

-Sometimes we don't put our trust in God but he is always faithful.

-God looks beyond our mistakes.

-nothing is impossible for God.

-Tiff