May 10 2006
Genesis 21:1-7
Isaac is Born, Fulfilling the Promises of God
Or
How to Really Begin a Never-Ending Story
With these 8 verses, the past 10 chapters of Genesis come to a culmination that Abraham and Sarah often thought would never come to pass. God has finally blessed them with the arrival of their first child, a son named Isaac. This was a birth backed by decades of prophecy declaring the event, but no actual child had yet been born to fulfill those prophecies. Sarah and Abraham had battled their individual and collective doubting during this whole process, calling God’s knowledge and their own physical ability into question.
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