“Then the Lord said to Abraham, ‘Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Will I really have a child, now that I am old?’ Is anything too hard for the Lord? I will return to you at the appointed time next year, and Sarah will have a son.’”
- Genesis 18:13-14 -

CAN WE LET GOD BE GOD? The crucial question for Abraham and Sarah – and for us today – is this: ‘Is anything too hard for the LORD?’ (14). In different ways, this question resurfaces everywhere in the Bible, challenging our doubts concerning what is possible and warning us of the dangers of accepting the limits of what may be called ‘normal reality.’ Behind this question lies another: ‘Can we really allow God to be God, or do we confine him within the limits of our minds, so that we expect nothing surprising or unusual to happen?’ Walter Brueggemann says that if we feel that some things are too hard for God, ‘then God is not yet confessed as God’. We have restricted God’s freedom to surprise us and burst open the closed universe ‘where things are stable, reliable, and hopeless’. The issue confronts us in the tightly controlled world of modernity just as powerfully as it did Sarah long ago.

Closing Prayer: Forgive me Lord, sometimes I doubt Your power. I need to be reminded again today, that with You, all things are possible (from Encounter with God).