Sarah

As I start looking at Sarah, I would like to preface this with a bit of back ground.  Sarah is one of the women that has a fairly prominent place in Scripture.  She is the mother of the promised seed of the covenant between God and Abraham, but she is also very much a woman as well.  She is used as an example of a submissive wife who obeys her husband, but she also has the same weaknesses many women have today.  As I think on her, I realize how strong she was, following her husband to an unknown land, obeying him even when it put her in danger, however she also in weakness tried to bring about God’s promise in her own strength.

As wives and mothers we can learn a lot from Sarah about what it means to submit to our husbands.  But more importantly as Christian women we can learn what it means to trust God to be faithful despite the circumstances.  Sarah had a promise that she would bear the covenant line through which the blessings of God would come to the entire world (Gen. 12:2, 3), she had been shown the might of God and His protection over her (Gen. 12:10-20) and yet despite these assurances, she looked at the circumstances and gave in to her “fear” and encouraged Abram to sleep with her maid in order to have a child through her (Gen. 16:2).  We will look at each of these in more depth, but I wanted to place them as an introduction and an encouragement to us all, when we know what God has promised, we need to trust Him to fill that promise in His own time.  This is a hard lesson to learn, and requires great patience and strength on our part that no matter what happens God does not fail.

I will end with this encouragement, pray daily that God will guide you in His Word and that His Spirit will give you the strength to be looking to Him and not to ourselves for answers.

The primary passages that deal with Sarah’s history are found in Genesis, beginning with 11:29 when we find her marrying Abram (she is called Sarai at this time) and continuing to Genesis 23:2 with her death and burial.  There are also New Testament references to her we will look at as well: Galatians 4:22-31 and I Peter 3:6.

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