Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Genesis 21:1-7 and the Word of God

In Genesis, at the occasion of the birth of Issac, we read this:

21:1a - The Lord visited Sarah as he had said
21:1b - and the Lord did to Sarah as he had promised
21:2 - And Sarah conceived and bore abraham a son in his old age at the time of which God had spoken to him
21:4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him
21:7 And [Sarah] said "who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have born him a son in my old age."

God's Word is working, his sayings are vindicated (v1a, v2), his promises are fulfilled (v1b), his commands are obeyed (v4), and the world would never have seen it coming (v7).

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