The announcement of the Covenant Son (Genesis 18: 2-4, 10-14)

Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. He quickly ran to meet them, bowed with his face to the ground, and said, "Please come to my come where I can serve you. I'll have some water brought, so you can wash your feet, and then you can rest under the tree. Let me get you some food to give you strength before you leave. I would be honored to serve you." One of the guests was the LORD, and he said "I'll come back about this time next year, and when I do, Sarah will already have a son." Sarah was well past the age for having children. So she laughed and said to herself, "Now that I am worn out and my husband is old, will I really know such happiness?" The LORD asked Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh? Does she doubt that she can have a child in her old age? I am the LORD! There is nothing too difficult for me. I'll come back next year at the time I promised, and Sarah will already have a son."

Previously we learned that God made a covenant with Abraham where he will be the father of a great nation. That promise could not come to pass unless Abraham has male off-spring from his own marriage with Sarah. Since Abraham and Sarah were advanced in years, God himself pays a visit to them to make the announcement and has a fellowship meal with them. God puts to rest that there is nothing too hard for him and that it should not seem extraordinary that God can bring forth life from death. In terms of his prophetic covenant with Abraham, if God failed on one of his promises, all of them would be void. God establishes that indeed Sarah will bear him a son, and that the son will be forthcoming in the same season of the following year. The son to be born will be named Isaas and all of the promises of the Abrahamic Covenant concerning the great nation to follow now rest in his life to fulfill.

Daily Prayer: Father, my faith is only as good as the object of my faith. You have established that nothing is impossible for you who is the creator of the heavens and the earth.
Let you be large to me also, so that when I pray I can ask anything from you knowing that it can be don if it be your will. Amen.