Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Genesis 17:15-22
by: Dorothy Noel.
You would think by this point Abraham would have believed what God was telling him—after 100 years of seeing God work and the fact that his faith had made him wildly successful by the world’s standards. Yet, when God made a promise, Abraham laughed and asked that Ishmael might receive the covenant God was offering. Like Abraham, we often expect God’s work to fit the logic of human means (“Use the kid that’s here, not the one that doesn’t exist.”), forgetting that He is the Creator of all. He has all the materials and tools to complete whatever plan He has, regardless of our limitations.