There are tons of things we could go into about these chapters in Genesis. The part I want to focus on today is the beginning of the fulfillment of a promise from back in Chapter 15.
God said to Abraham (who had no children),
"Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”"
God promises a man with no children and a barren wife (Genesis 11:30) to make his offspring as numerous as the stars. (a figure of speech meaning a lot of children.)
Why did God wait until Abraham was old? Why did he choose a man who had a barren wife? Why would he use this couple who had no earthly hope of conceiving a child to fulfill His purpose?
Simple: They couldn't fulfill His purpose. It had to be God.
Romans 4:17 says,
"“I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed—the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not."
This is a quotation of Genesis 17.
Notice the last part about in whom they have believed,
"The God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not."
That is the God we serve. The God who speaks life where there is no life. The God who shows up with all seems hopeless. The God who says to the world,
"My ways are not your ways."
Does your life seem impossible? Does your situation seem hopeless?
Do not be quick to forget that God specializes in the impossible. He rules over the hopeless.
Let us be quick to call upon the Name of the Lord in every time of distress.
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