iRunScriptures / Season 1, Episode 7
Promise and Patience
iRunScriptures Season 1, Episode 7: "Promise and Patience" --- THE WAIT BEGINS The promise had been made: descendants like the dust of the earth, offspring as numerous as the stars. But years passed, and Sarai's womb remained closed. In the ancient world, barrenness was more than a personal sorrow—it was a social stigma, a theological puzzle, a wound that never stopped bleeding. Children were wealth, legacy, proof of divine favor. A woman without children was considered cursed, incomplete, a failure. And Sarai had no children. She had followed her husband from Ur to Haran to Canaan. She had endured the famine, survived the Egypt episode, watched Lot separate and take the best land. Through all of it, she had trusted that the God who called Abram would fulfill His promise. But the years kept passing. And the promise stayed unfulfilled. How do you hold onto hope when hope seems absurd? When the evidence of your eyes contradicts the promise of God? When every month brings fresh disappointment, and every neighbor's pregnancy is a reminder of what you don't have? This is where faith lives: in the gap between promise and fulfillment. And Abram and Sarai were about to discover just how wide that gap can be. --- THE COVENANT Ten years after entering Canaan, Abram was still childless. The promises...