Episode 173--Sibling Rivalries and Reversals, Part 2--The God Who Sees

Lots of church-folk know the Bible story of how Abraham and Sarah patiently waited for a child in their old age, and then were blessed with a son, Isaac.  But we often forget (or ignore) that the Bible itself tells a more complicated, surprising, and table-turning tale.  When Abraham and Sarah doubt that God will come through for them, they take matters into their own hands and Abraham has a son with their Egyptian servant-turned-concubine, Hagar.  And then when Sarah has a son of her own, overturning expectations that she is too old, they kick Hagar and her son, Ishmael out... but God provides for this outcast single mother and her boy, even though the great patriarch of the faith, Abraham, rejects them. It seems that just when we think we know who is important, and who doesn't matter, God overturns our expectations and raises up the younger of the older, and then also reserves the right to bless and care for the rejected ones as well as the "chosen" ones.  One thing's for sure--in the Bible and in the present day, the living God is always full of surprises.  Join us for this latest episode of Crazy Faith Talk to explore God's table-turning ways in this set of biblical brothers.