GOD, THE GREAT "SADISTIC" STORYTELLER
(on how our lives are much like Sarah's)
by Yvonne W. Bao
For the last 14 years, Yvonne worked in Asia to fight against hunger and human trafficking. She has recently moved to Germany in pursue of a new life and career. I have had the privilege of getting to know her via email and Skype. She may guest blog here from time to time. (SDW)
It dawned on me that God is a great storyteller. By that, I mean, he certainly has the ability to spare us all the setbacks and suspense we normally experience as humans. He could just hand out to us whatever he has in mind in a blink of the eye. Didn’t he once simply utter: “Let there be…” and lo, there they were, the heaven and the earth and all that is in between.
So, any delay in the deliverance of his promise is obviously not a matter of competency. Could it be one of discretion then? Perhaps he could have refrained from