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Blessings Annette

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I think Abraham's story is something that speaks to me at least as that which warns what happens when we grow impatient with God's timetable for our life.

                                                                                                                     JoshuasonFlower

:amen:                                                                                                                                                                   With love-in Christ,kwik

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On 4/12/2017 at 7:52 PM, BK1110 said:

No, it wasn't. But the Bible never says he was perfect. David was "a man after God's own heart" and he peeped on a married woman bathing, called her to the castle, and then had her husband murdered to cover it up. Even the best of us stumble, and it should be well-remembered that we are open to failure at a moment's notice when we let our guard down against temptation and sin.

 

Good to read your thoughts, thank you for sharing them.

 

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On 4/13/2017 at 7:13 AM, No124get1952 said:

You ask a very good question. In those days, in most of the cultures at that time in history, if a woman was barren, she would choose a maidservant for her husband to impregnate, then, when time for delivery came the pregnant maidservant would lay between the wife's legs and give birth, the child then belonging to the wife, not the maidservant.  Please note that this was a "cultural custom" known to both Abraham and Sarah. After waiting nearly 75 years, we can understand their impatience at the promise of God.

The result of that whole affair was the creation of the Arab nation/culture and today's perpetual conflict.  Nowhere in God's Word does any sort of cultural custom supercede God's law or God's Word. So Abraham made a mistake by agreeing to what his wife wanted to do. In the flesh we could say that Abraham was just a horny old man, but I don't think that's true. When Ishmael grew up, even though Abraham loved him, Sarah despised him and made Abraham's life very uncomfortable until he sent them away after Isaac was born.

Hence Paul's scriptural admonition, "all things are lawful, but not all things are expedient."

 

Thanks for the detailed response. I am sure that it took you a while, thank you.

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