Genesis 21:17-20
Sarah and Abraham took matters into their own hands, and wound up with two sons. Sarah has Hagar and Ishmael banished. But even in this situation, God knows what's happening. God fulfills the promise made to Ishmael, saving him and Hagar in the desert. God heard Hagar and Ishmael crying out in the desert, and they are taken cared if and looked after.
Genesis 22:10-13
Abraham was prepared to do what God eventually did, sacrificing a son for the sins of others and for the worship and glorification of the Lord.
Genesis 24:67
I appreciate that it says that Isaac took Rebekah as his wife, and the he LOVED her. It doesn't emphasize that he knew her in the biblical sense, which he did, but focuses on the fact that he lived her and that she comforted him.
Genesis 26:6-11
Isaac does exactly the same thing that Abraham did: calls his wife his sister because he was afraid someone would kill him in order to take her. King Abimelech must have been fed up with this kind if thing from that family.
Matthew 5-7
The Sermon on the Mount is pretty intense, but it gives us pretty much every possible guiding principal that we need to live the life God wants us to live. All we need is in those 3 chapters.
Overall thoughts:
It is amazing that god can take a seemingly impossible situation and turn it around for the better. As God asked of Sarah, is there anything to wonderful for God?
But what happens when we start to doubt that, when we take matters into our own hands? How badly do we mess things up? Anything is possible with God, but I'm sure that life would actually be a lot easier if we calmed down, stopped being in such a rush, and followed what we KNOW to be Gods desires for the world and for our lives.
Think about this: how much drama, heartache, rejection, and war could have been avoided if Sarah and Abraham had just trusted in Gods plan for Sarah to have a son? How much better of a world would we live in if we followed the teachings of Christ that were spoken on the sermon on the mount? It's all there, God doesn't hide. Gods knowledge and instruction are there for the taking, for the knowing. But we are just so full of ourselves, thinking that we know better, that we lave it all figured out, that we go around screwing up most of the plants that have been set in place for us.
How different of a world would we live in if we CHOSE to do what we knew to be the right thing, if we CHOSE to follow Gods teaching and the plans that God had for our lives? How different would it all be?
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