🎺 Genesis 21

Genesis 21 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, “Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.” That is not a motto invented for a poster. It is the first sentence a family hears when this page is opened at night.

Keep going a little further. The chapter also says, “Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him in your hand. For I will make him a great nation.”” Genesis 21 opens with these words: “Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.” The line to keep is Genesis 21:2: “Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.” Carry the word “sarah” from that verse into the rest of the day.

The line worth learning out loud is Genesis 21:2: “Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.

What happens first in Genesis 21? Then try this: Read “Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.” once more. What does it show you about God? You do not have to finish every verse. You can close the book after the memory verse and still have read the Bible together.