Genesis c. !8

v.13 Then the Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, “Will I really have a child, now that I am old?” Is anything too hard for the Lord?

Just like Abraham who fell faced down and laughed when the Lord said he will have a child, Sarah laughed too. But the Lord reacted to Sarah’s laughter. Why? Maybe it’s because Sarah’s laughter was tinged with scorn. Who would not be? She’s already way, way past the fertile age. Abraham can laugh all he wants but he can still sire children; but for Sarah, the thought of getting pregnant at that age must have sounded to her like a big bad joke. I can’t blame Sarah for laughing at God.

I doubt God, I laugh at God because I tend to think that some things are difficult for the Lord.

How can one have faith without doubt?

If a person has only faith and no doubt, nothing that the Lord can do can be called divine. Just like Sarah when the Lord said she will conceive Isaac, she doubted the Lord. But when she did give birth to Isaac, she knew that because of her doubt, God performed an act that is beyond the power of anyone and anything ever known. She doubted God but she later realized that there is really nothing too difficult for the Lord to do.

If she did not doubt all she would have said is, yeah, yeah, yeah, so what, I’m preggy and I will name the baby Isaac…blah, blah, blah as the Lord commanded…But because of her doubt and Abraham’s doubt, the fulfillment of God’s covenant is ever more sweeter.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith. The opposite of faith is unfaithfulness, infidelity to God—idolatry.

Little by little doubts are overcome and every time doubts are overcome faith grew little by little for in weakness there is strength.

….when I am weak God makes me strong. (2 Cor. 12:10)

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“All things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.” Rom 8:28