Dear Father,
Thank you for this night. We are studying Genesis in bible study. We were studying the part where the Lord promises Sarah she will have a child, and after he changes her name from Sarai (Contentious) to (Princess).
In that culture, being barren was a big stigma. I don’t think we entirely understand Sarah’s position. She couldn’t have children, and she was past the age of childbearing. She laughed at the promise, but she received it. She had a child, her own biological child, in a kind of triumph.
Proverbs talks about better to be living on the corner of a roof than with a contentious wife. And Proverbs also says that four things never have enough: “fire, the earth for rain, the grave, and the barren womb”
So having a child was something that Sarah had probably given up on, but she had faith, and along with Abraham, was blessed because of the one who was the God of Israel before Israel even existed.