Wednesday 14 Dec 2022

December 14: Isaiah 51:1-3

Key Verse: Isaiah 51:2
look to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth. When I called him he was only one man, and I blessed him and made him many.

Devotion:
How often do you doubt when someone tells you God can do anything. How often do you doubt when you see all the bad things surrounding you? How often do you doubt because there seems to be so much going wrong and nothing going right? It is very easy to be swayed by the world when there is so much going on in the world.

People follow people – that is the way we do things and have been doing things for a very long time. God knows this too and He has given us quite a few things which we can look back on to see nothing is impossible for Him! God made a promise to a single man, Abraham, saying he would be the father of a great nation. In our eyes we may think God is promising to allow Abraham to have many children – because that is about as far as we can see!

God made the promise knowing Sarah was barren at the time and knowing they would try something to make things happen quicker! God wants us to trust Him and to be patient while trusting Him. His timing knows no bounds and it certainly not timed with a stopwatch like we want it to be!

God has tried to impress His promises on us and not to have time limits for those promises to come true. God indeed blessed Abraham, but not with hundreds of children of his own, but through his family tree and Abraham grew to know this promise as he waited patiently (in the end!)

Points to Ponder:
Do you try to rush God’s decisions?

Will you try to have a bit more patience with God?