Barren

"You are children of promise," Galatians 4:28.

You, who? You, brothers and sisters, You! You, children of the woman who didn't have kids. That woman who couldn't have kids, she's our mother. She's our mother in keeping with the promises God gave to old Abraham (& to her!). Sarah, the old, barren woman, now has kids all over the place. Kids of promise. And, listen to this, kids born by the Spirit, not by the flesh. Isaac was her first kid born by God's promises, by God's Spirit. And her farthest kid, Jesus, born by God's promise, conceived by God's Spirit, made you believers her kids, by his faith. And, just like Isaac, Jesus set you free for freedom's sake, children free from the Law's curse!

We visit today with a brother or sister amazed together by what God has done in his faithfulness to those old people, good as dead. And, together, we praise God in Christ for the joy of life.