Contemplative Bible Reading

Genesis 18:13-14 (New Living Translation)

13 Then the Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh? Why did she say, ‘Can an old woman like me have a baby?’ 14 Is anything too hard for the Lord? I will return about this time next year, and Sarah will have a son.”

Of course not. There is nothing “too hard” for the Lord. He caused an old woman to have a baby. Impossible, yet trivial.

My problem with this “nothing is too hard for the Lord” truth—and it is MY PROBLEM—is that the Lord doesn’t to do the impossible things of my choosing at a time of my choosing. I can create a long list of “things that aren’t to hard for the Lord” that I want the Lord to do today.

Why doesn’t the Lord’s list of things agree with mine? Doesn’t the Lord listen to me? Doesn’t the Lord know the value of the things I want accomplished?

The Lord can do. The Lord hears. The Lord knows. Perhaps my vision of the consequences of my list is a bit blurred. Perhaps—definitely, not perhaps—I am not God, and I want to be on some days.