Too Old to Have a Baby!

Too Old to Have a Baby!

This past Sunday, Jason Peters, our Sunday School teacher, was using Luke 1 and the story of Zacharias & Elizabeth in his lesson.  As he read the story, something jumped out at me!   Twice it says that Zacharias and his wife were aged—or advanced in years.  Gabriel tells him that his prayers have been heard and they will have a son.  

Now if you’re advanced in years (and I’m assuming past baby-producing age), don’t you at some point quit praying and asking for a baby?   I’m almost 64-years-old and I can promise that would NOT be a request I’d still be making!!   It wasn’t that God didn’t hear all those years ago.   And it wasn’t that He was saying, “No!”   Oh no—God heard!  It was the fact that He had many pieces to this puzzle to put in place.  Mary (Elizabeth’s cousin and the mother of Jesus) had to be born and grow up.  God used those years to season and teach Zacharias and Elizabeth.  They remained righteous and blameless even when it seemed their prayers went unanswered. God wanted mature, godly overcoming parents to train John the Baptist who would become the forerunner of Jesus.  

But when they were past their prime (or so they thought) and when their reproductive systems were dead...a miracle took place!   They had a baby!!!   And not just any baby—but the promised forerunner of the Messiah.  

This should give all of us such HOPE!!  What prayer has gone unanswered in your life?  Did He really say no?   Could it be that God is having to put many things in place?   Is He wanting to wait until everything seems dead so he can produce a living miracle?   

Don’t give up hope!   And in the meantime, worship God and live righteously before Him.