Through the lens of Young adult
Circumcision and the visit at Mamre
Sarah laughed when she heard she would have a son. She wasn’t trying to be unfaithful. She was protecting herself. After 89 years of disappointment, hope had become a kind of risk she couldn’t afford anymore.
You are in a season where you have probably already developed your own version of Sarah’s laugh. Maybe it is a hope you stopped praying about. A relationship you stopped imagining. A calling you used to feel and then gave up on naming. The protective laugh — yeah, sure, that’ll happen.
The Father is not offended by the laugh. But he does ask the question — is anything impossible for the LORD?
He is not asking to embarrass you. He is asking to remind you. The God who showed up at the oaks of Mamre is still in the business of doing things people had stopped daring to hope for. Including in your life. Including for you.
One small thing today: name the hope you have been quietly laughing at. Then put it back on the table. Tell the Father — I had stopped letting myself hope this. I’m bringing it back to you. Do whatever you do.