6 Sarah said, “God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.”
The long-awaited baby is born and he gets a name very appropriate for him. He is named Isaac which comes from the same word as the word laughter. I can just hear the laughter as Sarah shows off her son Isaac. She is mature and beautiful, probably sagging in all the usual places for a woman of 90. Remember, she had recently been desirable to a leader name Abimelech. Now she is nursing her own infant son. Just the logistics of this would have brought her laughter. She probably thought, “This would have been so much easier before I started to sag.” But the son is such a joy and the miracle of the birth so amazing that all she can do is laugh. And all her friends and neighbors hear about her new son and their reaction is the same as hers was when she heard. They didn’t have FOX news or Oprah to get the word out, so as friends visit there would have been repeated rounds of laughter. I am sure for months the miracle of Isaac brought tears of joy and outbursts of laughter as he learned the simple things in life. His big brown eyes and gentle coos as he stared into this old woman’s face probably brought laughter to his mother. The impossible was staring her down. He was probably trying to figure out if all people laughed so much. In his household they did and that was all that mattered. The frequent night nursing and changing of his wrappings probably even brought laughter. I am sure exhaustion set in from time to time. But the joys over-rode these. When was the last time you had a really good period of laughter? I don’t mean a small chuckle, but days and weeks that were filled with laughter? Too long ago? Never? I thought so. Maybe it is time to recognize the miracle of Jesus saving YOU, and making you into something of worth. Now that should bring some joy and laughter into your heart. Someone like you being remade into someone like Him. That is funny.
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