Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him. (Genesis 18:18 NIV).
Abram was very faithful to The Lord as well. He was 86 years old when God said
He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness. (Genesis 15:5, 6 NIV). Abram trusted that God would give him a son and that he would be the father of many nations. Sarah originally was named Sarai and she gave her maid Hagar to Abram so that maybe she could have a family through her. It would be very hard on her heart to have another women bear the child of her husband and then Hagar ran away. She came back and bear a child to Abram. Sarah still had no children.
Genesis 17 is really awesome to me just in the way God makes a covenant with Abram and tells him He will be his God and the God of his offspring.
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty; walk before me faithfully and be blameless. Then I will make my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers.” Abram fell facedown, and God said to him, “As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations. No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations. I will make you very fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you. I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you. The whole land of Canaan, where you now reside as a foreigner, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God.” Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come. This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised. You are to undergo circumcision, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and you. (Genesis 17:1-11 NIV). How wonderful is it that Abraham was faithful to God and made a way for the future people. We can do the same thing today and change the generations to come. We can make God known and live faithful lives.
As Sarah was a faithful wife to Abraham God also made a promise with her. Sarah was promised a child. God can do all things no matter how crazy it may sound. God cares deeply and will press on with us and do the hard things.
God also said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you are no longer to call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah. I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her.” 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?” And Abraham said to God, “If only Ishmael might live under your blessing!” Then God said, “Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him. And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation. But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you by this time next year.” When he had finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him. (Genesis 17:15-22 NIV).
Nothing is to hard for God. Is anything too hard for the Lord? I will return to you at the appointed time next year, and Sarah will have a son.” (Genesis 18:14 NIV).
Later on Sarah and Abraham were traveling and and they arrived in Negev and Abraham told people that Sarah was his sister because she was so beautiful and people would find favor with him then. And when God had me wander from my father’s household, I said to her, ‘This is how you can show your love to me: Everywhere we go, say of me, “He is my brother.” ’ ” (Genesis 20:13 NIV).
God was indeed faithful to Sarah. His promises never go unfulfilled. Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him. Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore him. When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God commanded him. Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. Sarah said, “God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.” And she added, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.” (Genesis 21:2-7 NIV).
Sarah was a wonderful woman of God serving Him and her husband! I will continue to study her and the many more wonderful women God created! We are all Gods creation beautifully and wonderfully made!
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