“Did you ever see a cowboy film,” the novelist Marian Keyes was once asked by a friend, “where someone has been caught by the Indians and tied between two wild stallions, each pulling in opposite directions?” “Yes,” Marian said, nodding. “That’s a bit what giving birth is like.”

Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children?

Genesis 21:7

For all its pain, there is nothing as miraculous, incredible and hopeful as birth. America was very nearly destroyed by the Civil War, but Abraham Lincoln restored the nation’s spirits for the future when he spoke of a “new birth of freedom” in his Gettysburg Address. In John’s Gospel, Jesus’ concept of being “born again” left Nicodemus in wonderment. “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother‘s womb and be born?” Nicodemus asked the Savior. Abraham’s wife Sarah, far beyond her childbearing years, thought the idea that she would give birth was laughable and ludicrous…until God made it happen.

It’s not too late – for you, for America or for those you love who seem beyond hope. New birth will be possible, even inevitable, when God hears your faithful prayers!

Recommended Reading: John 3:1-16