God’s Odd Ways

God’s Odd Ways: In a recent reading of Genesis, it struck me that God made a plan to have a people for himself—and he began with a man whose wife was infertile. When God performed a miracle and a son was born to Abraham and Sarah in their old age, their son also had a marriage marked by infertility—20 years of it. God is clearly not in a hurry. It is one of the things that can be so frustrating to me as a believer. How many times in Scripture do we see people in circumstances that easily lead to the question, “Where are you, God?” Yet the Bible references God acting “in the fullness of time.” I find I need to just trust his timing, to believe he is working even if I don’t see it, and to remember that God knows the end from the beginning. He has a plan.