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Last Updated on : Saturday, October 11, 2014

 
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Chapter 7

Sarah

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SARAH provides outstanding comfort and consolation for sisters of today. She reveals herself to be as much a woman of flesh and blood as they are; a woman fraught with emotions and feelings of love and envy and yet a woman of great spiritual understanding. What she was able to become, sisters may also achieve, if they emulate her positive virtues and learn, as she ultimately did, to put their full trust in Yahweh.

This mother in Israel called Abraham "Lord" in her heart. Her respect for her husband was real, deep and sincere. Her submission to him gained her great respect in his eyes, When she offered her quiet advice he listened to her. Here was "sovereign obedience", Sarah reigning in the heart of her husband.

The display of the power of Abraham's prayer, and the power of God in healing Abimelech and opening the wombs of his household, doubtless did much to perfect the faith of Sarah to receive strength to conceive Isaac. How much then should sisters as the weaker vessel devote themselves to this activity, if they would grow in faith, and receive tangible blessings in their lives.

Sarah's faith brought to maturity by the power of God revealed in her life in the matter of the conception of Isaac, became the springboard for the perfection of Abraham's faith. Her wisdom in the matter of the expulsion of Hagar and Ishmael, when endorsed by Yahweh, appeased the protestations of her husband, still clinging to his fleshly aspirations in Ishmael. Sisters can therefore exert an extremely valuable influence for good on their husbands, provided they speak as of the oracles of God. B.P.

 

 

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