Hebrew: Princess
It’s been six months since I went into the waters.
In choosing my baptismal name, the story of Sarah struck me the most. Tormented by her inability at child-bearing, Sarah (then Sarai) resorted to asking her husband (then Abram) to impregnate their housemaid, Hagar. Later, after Hagar’s child was born, she threw both mother and son out of the household.
Sounds brutal, carnal and despicably immoral. Which woman would ask her husband to knock up their maid and then subsequently abandon mother and son?
And yet God must have seen something in Sarah – as imperfect as she was – to establish a covenant with her and her husband Abraham. Subsequently she was blessed with a son, Isaac, who would beget Jacob, then Joseph, then the list goes on.
11 And by faith even Sarah, who was past childbearing age, was enabled to bear children because she considered him faithful who had made the promise. 12 And so from this one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.
Hebrews 11:11-12 (NIV)
Therefore, let Sarah be an eternal reminder of how God always has a way of fixing the broken, and then using them powerfully to create long-lasting consequences that can be achieved only by an act of faith.
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Tomorrow, as we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ, may it be a solemn reminder to how vast and victorious our God is, to be able to raise the dead from the grave. In the same way, it is this power that rescues us, cleanses us, and frees us from our sins.
3 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
Romans 6:3-4 (NIV)
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