“Helping God Out.”

In Genesis 15, God spoke to Abraham and gave him a promise that he should have a son and his heirs “shall be as stars in heaven.” But, in the next chapter, Sarah, seeing she had no child yet, decided that Abraham should have a child with her Egyptian handmade, Hagar, and his name was Ismael! Sarah was trying to “help God out,” by giving her handmaiden to Abraham, because Sarah “wasn’t getting any younger.” In Genesis 18, God sends his angels to deliver a message to Abraham, that “he will have a son by Sarah!” Sarah hears this conversation and laughs!! In Chapter 21, when Sarah was “much older” she conceived Isaac, just like God said!

We look at the world situation with the Palestinians and others, and the Jewish people, and think, God doesn’t need our help! He already has a plan! He only needs our “trust!” He only needs us to believe “that He knows best.”

Sherry