“Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, “Shall a child be born to a man who is one hundred years old? And shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?” And Abraham said to God, “Oh, that Ishmael might live before You!” Then God said: “No, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant and with his descendants after him.”
Genesis 17:17-19
It seems at this point that Abraham had waited so long that it was ridiculous to even think that there was any possibility of God’s promise to come about. Sometimes we get like that, we wait, and we wonder, we want, we weary, and we begin to consider that the promises of Faith are ridiculous.
God wasn’t fazed one bit by Abraham’s disbelief; ironically God names the promised son: “Isaac” or “He laughs”
I like that, we think God is funny in the head when He starts telling us all these impossible blessings that are in store for us, we start belly laughing in disbelief. But God on the other hand laughs at the impossible; the odds kind of tickle His humor. You see, here in Genesis God is establishing a principal that is a staple through every book of the Bible to follow, faith is the key to an abundant and effective relationship with God.
Several hundred years later Jesus Christ would walk the earth, and speak to His disciples about the odds and impossibilities of another promise. Not the promise of a son, but the promise from a Son to “bringing many sons and daughters into salvation”.
Being so amazed by the odds of what they heard the disciples would say, “Who then can be saved?”
And Jesus then responded with the words that if believed would bring abundant and effective relationship with God, “With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.”
