Bargaining with God is pretty risky. But God was patient with Abraham. God showed him that asking for anything is allowed. We may not always get what we ask for but we can ask knowing that answers come from God’s perspective and not ours. We often don’t even see God’s answer to our prayers because what we get is not what we expected. Sometimes we don’t realize what we are asking for. And then sometimes, God does give us what we ask for, much to our regret
Tag: Abram
LET ME GIVE GOD A LITTLE HELP
Have you ever had someone give you a task and you tell them you’ve got it and that they don’t need to worry, it will get done? Then, while you are getting things together in a manner that will complete the task correctly and in a timely manner, they jump in a do something that messes it up. Well, that’s what Sarai did. She didn’t take God at His Word and jumped in to see if she could help God move matters along. Not only did she bring about the birth of child whose descendants would be enemies of her own son’s descendants. She gave herself someone to be jealous of. Neither event was a good thing.
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Third Time’s a Charm
Life settled down for Abram. He returned to his home under the trees of Mamre. And he still did not have a son. I often wonder what Abram and Sarai thought of the promise of descendants that could not be numbered. They had no son, or daughter for that matter. No children at all. My heart goes out to Sarai. She must have wanted children and suffered because she had not been able to give Abram a child.
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DON’T FORGET YOU HAD HELP
King Kedorlaomer and his allies sacked the cities and took everything. Food, clothing, livestock and captured all of the people in those cities. One of the captives was Lot, the nephew of Abram, who was living in Sodom. Abram did not have to go after Lot. He could have just left him enslaved. It would have been easier and safer to just stay out of it. But he didn’t. It took courage to go up against the forces of these four kings. He took 318 men to go after them.
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The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth
Have you ever been so afraid that you did the wrong thing and it made it worse? Well, that is just what Abram did. Abram knew how beautiful his wife was and he was afraid that someone might kill him just to take her. So, he told her to say that she was his sister. I don’t know what he was thinking. All he wanted to do was deceive the Egyptians so that they wouldn’t take Sarai.
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LET’S TAKE A CROSS COUNTRY TRIP
Ok then, now, imagine this for a minute. You are seventy-five years old and, so far, your life has been pretty good and you know what your plans are. You have a good life in Harran, then, in the night, God speaks to you and it turns your world upside down. Abram was told to pack up everything he had and go to a place that God would lead him to. God didn’t say where he was going; He said He would lead him there. On top of that, God tells him that he would be the father of nations. So far, his wife, Sarai, had been unable to conceive a child.
