"Then God said, "Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him."
Genesis 17:9 (NIV)
"YES, BUT". Only the God of all gods, can make "YES, BUT" happen. It must encourage your heart to realize that God's promise recorded in Genesis 15 was to the wife as well to the man. Abraham and Sarah didn't think so, for they contrived a means for Abraham to have a son through Hagar, BUT God was not willing to go along with their plan. "Yes Abraham, Ishmael will be a great nation", BUT the child of the promise, the child of the covenant, will come from Sarah.
"YES, BUT"! YES, God is concerned with the world and will create His people, a nation under covenant, BUT these great covenant promises were made to an individual. They are personal promises from a Great God to a lowly human being, AND according to this passage, to his wife.
How important was this lady named Sarah? Very important in God's eyes! God not only is concerned with Abraham being the father of this child, BUT He is also concerned that Sarah be the mother of this child. Sarah is the free woman (Gal. 4:23). Sarah is the one through whom the Messiah will come.
Make no mistake, this birth of Isaac, over 4,000 years ago, has eternal consequences. YES, all of us are sinners, BUT all who believe that Jesus is the Christ, are forgiven and receive eternal life!
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