Sarah

Ladies Bible Study June 16, 2012   Study of Sarah

Thinking about a stranger in our midst, Sarah, who is Sarah?

Patient to a point- then impatient; She was Abraham’s half-sister.  She was 90 when she had her first child and died when she was 127; She was very beautiful in a time when most were weathered,  she was jealous, She came from a wealthy family, she had comforts of home with her, her luxury was different than ours.  Men noticed her even in her older age, ageless beauty and she had inner beauty. She followed her husband in faith. She was barren, but God promised her children.  She was jealous and vengeful, yet she never turned from God. She didn’t waver in her husband or her faith. 

Romans 4:17-20 these verses show the deadness of Sarah’s womb and the agedness of Abraham.  God provided the complete miracle in the birth of Issac.

God keeps us from harm’s way, yet we have frailty, impatience, deceptiveness.  But through their faith God rewarded them. We don’t see their asking for forgiveness, but they remained faithful to God.  God had a plan to make Abraham the father of many nations, God provided the wealth and growth of these people directed in His plan.  They fell hard, but God still used them.

We wish we could be a little further over on the perfect scale, but because of our inadequate and sinful nature we can clearly see and praise God even more for taking our imperfect selves and using us for his greatness. God looks on the heart, and God knew them.  Even though we do stupid things, God knows our hearts as well, and uses us anyway. 

Even after Hagar became pregnant because of Sarah’s impatience, Sarah waited another 13 years before she had her child.  During that time she may have questioned herself wondering if she had made a horrible mistake.  But God in his mercy has the perfect plan.

A Road Map-

She left Haran for an unknown land of promise. In our handouts we marked all the mentioned places that they had traveled to and through, Reading from Genesis 12-23.  They traveled the land that Israel inhabits today.

Hebrews 11: 13  All these died in faith, without receiving the promises, but having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. 14 For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own. 15 And indeed if they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return. 16 But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for He has prepared a city for them