IN HIS TIME

IN HIS TIME

God's PROMISES come in God's TIME, so continue to have FAITH in Him.

Genesis 21:1-7

1 Now the LORD was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what he had promised. 2 Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him. 3 Abraham gave the name Isaac[a] to the son Sarah bore him. 4 When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God commanded him. 5 Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. 6 Sarah said, “God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.” 7 And she added, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”

It must have been a great day of celebration when Sarah gave birth to a son named Isaac. Abraham rejoiced at seeing the fulfilment of God’s promise. He waited for twenty-five years before his wife gave birth to a son. God had spoken to him many times that his descendents would be as numerous as the grains of sand on the beach and the stars in the sky. However, Abraham and Sarah were beyond the age of child bearing. At one point in time, Sarah decided not to wait any longer and offered her servant, called Hager, to Abraham conceive a child. It was not God’s intention for Abraham to have a child with another woman. At the appointed time, Sarah became pregnant through Abraham and gave birth to Isaac.

God remembered and kept His promise to Abraham according to His timing, and not Abraham’s timing.

Will we continue to trust in the Lord for His promise to come to pass? Will we continue to persevere in the things of God in order to see His promise to pass? Will we continue to be at peace as we wait for the promise of God? I believe we can celebrate like Abraham if we remain steadfast in God and His promises.

God is always faithful and carries out His promises according to His timetable because He knows the best time.