Anything Is Possible

Anything Is Possible

“Abraham fell facedown; he laughed and said to himself, “Will a son be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?”
Genesis 17:17

The story of Abraham and Sarah is one of the most intriguing stories in the Bible. God had shown favor on Abraham, who obeyed God in everything He asked him to do. He had earlier followed God’s command to leave his country, his family and his people and go to a new place. Abraham had obeyed and was loyal to God, but when God told him at age 100, and Sarah at age 90, that they were going to have a son, they both thought this was impossible. But a year later they did have a son whom God had requested that they name Isaac, and whom God established a covenant with. To have God keep telling you these things, that I am sure seemed strange to Abraham, must have required an amazing amount of faith and trust. But this is how God worked in the life of so many of the great Biblical leaders, who had the faith and trust to follow God no matter what He asked them to do. I wonder what people today would think if God told them to build an ark in the desert, or to go to a distant land without any instructions, or that they would have a son at 90 years old. Would we have the faith and trust to follow these instructions? However God also tells us that if we have as little faith as a mustard seed that we could move mountains, and that all things are possible with God. There are dozens of accounts all through the Bible about amazing things that God has done. These accounts should give each of us hope in any kind of circumstance, that we will ever face that anything is possible, when we believe and have faith in God.