Sarah’s doubt, my doubt

Sarah, Abraham’s wife, did doubt.

She doubted about God’s promise to her husband Abraham

“So shall your descendants be” (Rom. 4:18).

The reason she doubted it is because she believed her reality

That she could see clearly with her eyes

Rather than the unseen future hope.

Here, the reality that she saw was “the deadness of Sarah’s womb”

(Of course her husband’s body was as good as dead as well) (v. 19),

And the unseen future hope was what God promised to Abraham

That is, his descendants would become numerous like stars in the sky.

So Sarah couldn’t endure by faith for 25 years

until her husband Abraham turned 100 years old

Since he received God’s promise when he was 75 years old.

So when Abraham was 86 years old, 11 years after he received God’s promise,

Sarah made Abraham to sleep with her servant Hagar and Hagar gave birth to Ishmael.

Sarah couldn’t wait.  She became impatient. 

It seems that she was driven by impetuosity.

She tried to fulfill God's promise in her own power.

I reflect my doubt in Sarah’s doubt.

(As I was reading Lydia Brownback’s “LEGACY OF FAITH:

From Women of the Bible to Women of Today”)