Laughing At God

There are many things that we find funny in life. We laugh a jokes, family miscues even untimely falls are laugh at from time to time but we would never laugh at God would we? Sadly, we do laugh at God maybe not out loud but silently. Not one of those belly rolling laughs but more like a silent snicker. We laugh at His promises that He can change our lives. Sadly, we laugh because we don't believe it is possible. We would never dream of telling God He is not able to do that so we smile, grin and chuckle to ourselves....laugh at God. Sadly, we are just like Abraham. God tells him that Sarai will have a new name, Sarah, and also she will have a son that they will name Isaac. All this seem so unbelievable to Abraham so he simply tries to laugh it off.

Gen 17:15-23
15 Then God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name. 16 "I will bless her, and indeed I will give you a son by her. Then I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her." 17 Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to a man one hundred years old? And will Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?" 18 And Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before You!" 19 But God said, "No, but Sarah your wife will bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; and I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him. 20 "As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I will bless him, and will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation. 21 "But My covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this season next year." 22 When He finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham. NAS

Abraham assumed that since Sarah was 90 she could not have a child. By man's standard this would be true but God promised it would happen and it did come to pass.

What promise of God are you laughing at today? What challenge has He laid before you and you simply think God there is no way that this can happen. Even though you might not be laughing out loud you heart is snickering at God.

Seek God's forgives. Let us be like this man who spoke to Jesus.

Mark 9:22-24 23 And Jesus said to him, " 'If You can?' All things are possible to him who believes." 24 Immediately the boy's father cried out and said, "I do believe; help my unbelief." NAS

Do you believe or do you laugh at God?