Holy men's news prompts the question, 'Is there anything too hard for the Lord?'
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"Is anything too hard for the Lord?" (Gen. 18:14.)
This question is more a statement of fact that nothing is too hard for the Lord than it is an inquiry of whether the Lord is master over all things.It was asked upon the occasion when three holy men visited Abraham in the plains of Mamre. After Abraham had offered them water to wash their feet and invited them to rest under a tree, he instructed that food be prepared for them.
The visitors inquired about his wife, who was in the tent door, and then promised Abraham, " . . . and lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son." (Gen. 18:10.)
The scriptural account explains that Sarah was "old and well stricken in age," past the usual age for bearing children. Sarah, hearing the promise made by the holy men, "laughed within herself." (Gen. 18:13.)
"Sarah's astonished laughter at the news that she was to conceive and bear a son should not be interpreted as proving her lack of faith," states the Church Education Department's Old Testament Student Manual.
"Often in the scriptures the servants of the Lord are astonished beyond belief at the miraculous goodness of the Lord. . . . It was the incredible nature of the news that caused Sarah's response. And after approximately seventy years of childlessness, who could condemn her temporary inability to believe the joyous promise?"
