Category: 12

90 “…wise and respected men…”

 Deuteronomy 1:15

 How blessed we are when we are governed by wise and knowledgeable men and women. The Lord looks for the wise and blesses His people by giving them good councilors and leaders. This is true in church and also in our national settings. It is a terrible day when the wicked get power and inflict all kinds of curses on the people they are responsible for. It is a reflection of our godliness as to the quality of our leaders for God lets us feel the consequences of wickedness and laziness.

“Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.”

Proverbs 14:34

We should be praying for our leaders that God will give us righteous men and women to govern over our nation and churches. God blessed the Old Testament saints with many godly leaders and they went from strength to strength. Weak leaders and evil men brought the nation down and the people ended up with idolatry and all kinds of sin. We must not pander to the desires of our sinful lives but seek the righteousness of God in all our dealings. We are to look to the righteous to lead us and to bring us into safe and secure living where the Word of God is revered and people are led to obedience to God and not to the desires of self.

“But whoever listens to me will dwell securely, and will be at ease, without fear of harm.”

Proverbs 1:33

Let us listen to the Lord our God and seek good leaders.

12 “Sarah your wife will have a son.”

 Genesis 18:10

 God promised Abraham that he and Sarah would be the founders of a great nation and kings would be born from them in the future. Abrahm and Sarah found this very hard to believe because they were naturally past child-bearing years by a long way. They tried their own way to solve the problem and Ishmael was born but God said that he was not the son of promise. The line of the Messiah would be from Isaac.

 Abrahma and Sarah both laughed at the prospect of having a child in their old age but God was faithful. (Genesis 17:17. Genesis 18:12) God works according to His covenant and not according to the ways of the world. He delights to work contrary to human expectations and carries out His will according to His own purposes.

 God also promised another Son of promise, even our Lord Jesus Christ.

“Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.”

 Isaiah 7:14

 As Isaac was predicted so was our Lord Jesus 500 years before He was born, indeed the promises go back to the beginning of Genesis. Let us rejoice at the provision of the Lord and wonder at His ways.