Genesis 12:3   I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
 

Was this a great big joke? There was Abram, seventy-five years old, and Sarai, ten years his junior. Two old folks, God tells this couple, who haven't filled a single crib, that their descendants will fill an entire nation. And as if that wasn't humorous enough, he added that through one of their offspring, the whole world would be blessed. A quarter-century later, when Sarah was ready to change the diapers of her son, she named him, most fittingly, "Laughter," or as we know him, "Isaac."

God has this tendency, at crucial moments in history, to center our hopes on an unlikely birth of an unlikely child from an unlikely mother. Isaac from Sarah. Samuel from Hannah. And Jesus from Mary. All these boys were blessings in their own way, but Jesus is divine blessing incarnate - born for us and in us to fill us with joyous laughter.

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