#DailyDevotion Nothing Is Too Hard For The Lord
Lent day 11 Monday
Read Gen 18:1–15
Gen 18:13-14 The LORD said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Shall I indeed bear a child, now that I am old?’ (14) Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son.”
Last reading God said he makes the dead alive and calls that which is not into being. Well a woman at the age of ninety has gone through menopause as our text today testifies to. She isn’t having any babies. Barren by age is Sarah. But God promises a child next year. So, well who can blame her, she laughs at the promise. But God’s promises are nothing to be laughed at.
Is anything too hard, too wonderful for the Lord? Another practically couple barren women once asked how they would become pregnant. One was a virgin. Her older cousin Elizabeth was well just old. But the angel Gabriel pronounced to Mary, “Nothing is impossible with God.” Both of them had children, one was John the Baptist the other was Jesus. Both were children of promise and were children of the wonderful action of the Lord through the promise made Abraham and Sarah in Genesis eighteen, Isaac.
The Lord can do the impossible and does marvelous things. One of the marvelous, impossible things he does is bring us from being dead in trespasses and sins and giving us eternal life. He makes us children of God being born from above in the waters of baptism. Jesus said as much when asked by his disciples, “Who then can be saved”? Jesus replied, “With man this is impossible but with God, nothing is impossible.”
You cannot save yourselves. There is nothing in you, no power or strength or will that can bring about your salvation from the kingdom of darkness to God’s marvelous light. But the Lord through the promised seed of Abraham, our Lord Jesus Christ is God and Man. Jesus does the impossible. He wins eternal life for you. You were just as dead as Sarah’s womb, but through the promise of Jesus life, death and resurrection, the Holy Spirit makes you alive again.
Trust that he has done this for you. Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ who does the impossible. Nothing is too hard or marvelous for him.
Heavenly Father as you have promised a child to a barren couple and through that promise you brought for Isaac, may the promise of salvation make us born from above that we may possess eternal life even now. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.