Have you ever lost something?  Had those times when you look and look and cannot find what your missing?  Then all of the sudden you see it, right out in the open, in plain sight (my friend calls that “man looking”).  You feel foolish.  How many times has that happened.  My dad used to say “You can’t see the forest because of the trees” or “If it was a snake it would bite you” or “you can’t even see the nose on your own face”.   Frustrating isn’t it.  I mean think about it. Looking yet unable to find.

That happens to me many times, in fact, I might be the “man looking” champion.  I think it has a lot to do with being so fixated that you miss the obvious.

I find reading the Bible is much the same.  I can’t tell you how many times I have read a passage that I have read many times before, yet WHAM!  Something jumps out at me like never before.  Now I have heard many notions about that scenario, yet I tend to believe that is one of the ways God speaks to me.   Its almost as it  is alive, adapting to speak to me where I am at that moment.

When such a moment happens, I often stop and try and reflect on what it is I am seeing, and why now?

Today as I was reading through Genesis 18 and God came to Abraham’s tent, in the form of three men.  Abraham carries on a conversation with God, yet repeatedly it describes three men.  At one point the three men stop and God asks “should I reveal to Abraham what I am about to do?”.  I thought it was interesting that it refers to the three but all conversations imply one.  Kind of makes that early part of Genesis where God says “Let us make man in our image” make a little more sense.  No God is not crazy and He’s not wearing a blue tooth device.  He is just that Glorious that He can reveal Himself as three people.  Kind of like Father, Son and Holy Spirit stuff!!!

This is a really cool passage, because as God tells Abraham what is about to happen to his wife, Sarah starts to laugh, disbelieving that God could give an old barren woman a child.  Funny thing is, God asks Abraham about her doubt and asks  “Is anything to hard for the Lord?”.  Yep, that’s me, I often doubt, don’t think its gonna happen.  Then WHAM!  He calls me out.  I love how what happens next.  Sarah tells a big boldface lie straight to God’s face.  But He doesn’t strike her dead or punish her, simply confronts her with the truth.  He doesn’t withhold the child, a true blessing, even amidst her doubt and sin.

God is wonderful!!  He loves us beyond compare and and like me and Sarah, if you doubt or even sin, it doesn’t change His love, nor does it change what He has desired for your future.  Be assured God is for us and truly “Nothing is too hard for the Lord!”