Not Knowing…..

Nothing is impossible for God. When we do not see the outcome, or when a situation seems hopeless, we have to remember God is in control. What seems impossible is possible when He is behind it. The hardest part is the waiting, the unknown aspects. Sarah was told she would have a son by this time next year. She laughed because she was 90 years old, almost a half-century past the normal child-bearing age range. She thought she was a old, worn-out woman. But God told Abraham directly, “Is anything too hard for Me”? It’s easy to see things when God tells you, and even if they seem impossible, we know if God says it, it will happen. The harder part is in the not knowing at all. Trusting God when disappointment happens, and you don’t have any instruction, has to be the hardest part of faith. The “not knowing” with no direction, seems to put a faith-supressing twist on the situation. But we have to go back to what we know to be true. And that is, God has our back, He’s in control; He wants the best for us. What makes this type of situation seem even more impossible, because of the “not knowing”, should only make us trust Him more. If nothing is impossible with God, the unknown is included in that. Not knowing the “why” or having any “details or direction” should only up the “ante” and point us into the “trust Him with the even more impossible” realm. A very, very hard-to-do concept. Nothing is impossible for God, we just have to tattoo this into our brain, and pull it up when the situation calls for facing the unknown future.

10 Then one of them said, “I will return to you about this time next year, and your wife, Sarah, will have a son!”Sarah was listening to this conversation from the tent. 11 Abraham and Sarah were both very old by this time, and Sarah was long past the age of having children. 12 So she laughed silently to herself and said, “How could a worn-out woman like me enjoy such pleasure, especially when my master–my husband–is also so old?”13 Then the Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh? Why did she say, ‘Can an old woman like me have a baby?’ 14 Is anything too hard for the Lord? I will return about this time next year, and Sarah will have a son.”15 Sarah was afraid, so she denied it, saying, “I didn’t laugh.”But the Lord said, “No, you did laugh.” Genesis 18:10-15