Ninety, Pregnant and Trusting God

God has a plan for you….and me. I was reading today in Genesis. Thinking back to when Sarai was told by God that He would bless her with a baby. I remember when I found out I was going to be a dad for the first time. The baby room was started right away and we picked out clothes (even though we didn’t know if it was going to be a boy or girl). Sarai was 76 when God told her this! Regardless of her age she was excited as I was at the age of 31. The problem lies in the fact that for 14 years she didn’t get pregnant. Can you imagine her disappointment? I’ll bet she told all her friends she was going to have a baby, I bet she worked on the baby room and started getting things around for this baby that she wanted her whole life. After all she heard it from God himself…it has to be accurate…right? Imagine the defeat she must have felt as year after year the hope just dwindled away. Do you think she started to wonder if God forgot about her? I’ll bet she did….

Then at the age of 90 (Abram was almost 100) God informs them that they are going to have a baby. And the laughed…they laughed…and they laughed. Was this some kind of joke? They laughed because they had given up hope, and hope born again is always funny before it becomes reality.

Isn’t that what we do when someone says they can do the impossible….Laugh? God is still in the business of doing what he does best…THE UNBELIEVEABLE!

For Abram and Sarai their faith grew leaps and bounds. Do you think they ever had a problem truly trusting God again? God gives us answers to our prayers and cries every day. God will follow through when the time is right. Sometimes the answer comes immediately and sometimes the answer comes when you are 90 years old and find out your pregnant.

Stop rushing God and trust Him. Listen to Him and he will change the way you define the work “impossible”. God is still very much a part of our lives. Our lives just need to slow down to be very much a part of God.