Bible-Reading:
Abram and Sarai, also known as Abraham and Sarah. These amazing people loved God and followed Him closely, but they, like us, messed up in their walk with the Lord. Abraham didn't trust God and lied to men in power about his wife and gave her to them, calling her his sister so that he could gain material wealth (well, and so they wouldn't kill him because Sarai was beautiful). Sarah didn't trust God and manipulated His plan by getting her maidservant pregnant by Abraham; hence, the birth of Ishmael and the Islamic nation as we know it. Instead she should have just waited on God a little longer and Isaac would have come along in due time. But now we have a "wild donkey of a man" and all of his decedents. Thanks, Hagar.
When God tells us something and makes us a promise, it is not our place to make the plan happen in our way or in our timing. Things get messed up. God knows best. =)
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