Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to a man one hundred years old? And will Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?"
I don't remember this from the last time I read this chapter. Obviously, Abraham believed that he and Sarah had done the right thing in having Abraham and Hagar have a child. Abraham had no more clue than Sarah about the likelihood of a child between them. Everyone remembers that Sarah laughed when she hears this prophecy, and that she is rebuked by God for it. Yet Abraham is remembered as the man of great faith in God, and Sarah as the doubter and skeptic.
Why is that? Abraham has messed up at just about every option, except for going to Canaan in the first place. He still has a way to go before he gains that amazing faith, but this is the start. From here, God has laid out the proper path, that his descendants will come through Sarah. Now Abram knows how things will go for his family, but that doesn't mean he believed.
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