Something Beautiful

Genesis 18: 14(a)

Intro

Something beautiful, something good

All my confusions he understood

All I had to offer Him

Was brokenness and strife

And He made something

Beautiful out of my life



Abram and Sarai’s desire- to have a child of their own

Their crisis was

· Sarai was barren & well over the age to conceive

· her life was almost over, yet she had no child of her own.

Situation totally beyond her control.

She devised her own plan…..


Genesis 16:1-5; 17:1-5; 15-16


1. Wait on God’s Timing

Season in life for everything

Crises have expiry dates too

All parties involved in crisis must wait on God

God gave the promise to Abram,but Sarai too had to trust and obey.

She influenced Abram to sleep with Hagar


2. Keep the faith

Abram too looked at reality

From a biological & human perspective, it was impossible to conceive

From God’s perspective, it was possible

Our reality is not God’s reality.

From which perspective are you looking from at your crisis?

If you look at human reality, you will lose faith and devise your own plan .


3.Take responsibility for your actions/state

Sarai blamed Abram for her distress/suffering

She mistreated Hagar as a result

God revealed His just character when He promised to bless Ishmael too

The Covenant God made with Abram was for the unborn-not-yet conceived child: Isaac

This also reveals God’s divine plan for individuals long before birth

Nothing will be able to stand in His way from fulfilling it.

Sarai complicated their lives more by her impatience

Genesis 21:1-5

God fulfilled His promise in spite of their unfaithfulness and doubt


Closing

God made something beautiful out of Sarai’s pain of bareness

He made her a Mother of Nations; thereby changing her name to Sarah

Abram to Abraham-father of Nations

God brought something beautiful out of a couple’s bareness: Parents of Nations


Jesus is able and willing to make something beautiful out of your crisis too.

He is able to grant you your desire