Spoken With Love: Week 5 Day 2

Genesis 18:1-3

The Lord appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent in the heat of the day. 2 Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he hurried from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.

3 He said, “If I have found favor in your eyes, my lord, do not pass your servant by.

Genesis 18:10-14

10 Then one of them said, “I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son.”

Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, which was behind him. 11 Abraham and Sarah were already very old, and Sarah was past the age of childbearing. 12 So Sarah laughed to herself as she thought, “After I am worn out and my lord is old, will I now have this pleasure?”

13 Then the Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Will I really have a child, now that I am old?’ 14 Is anything too hard for the Lord? I will return to you at the appointed time next year, and Sarah will have a son.”

Demonstrating great aspects of the faith, Abraham is quick to be hospitable and caring to the three men, who were God and presumably two angels. In his faith he was obedient and was offered love from the words of God honoring him with the promise of a son. After that, Sarah (Abraham’s wife) laughed to herself in what could only be a laugh that was hollow with pain; you can hear the sarcasm in her thoughts. Yet, despite this, God chose to continue to honor the faith of Abraham and used his love as a teaching tool for Sarah. 

When God speaks to you, would you be a Sarah or an Abraham?