BRAGADAYJAH 48

Can you imagine a 99 year old man running back and forth at anytime, but especially after speaking to strangers? What might make anyone, young or old run about like an excited little boy? Well clearly Abraham was excited. Was he excited that he had 3 guests for dinner, or because the guests were a theophany of the Almighty? Maybe; but I would like to think that what really excited him, and made him run at his age was the realization that something exciting, something incredible, was happening, or about to happen, to him. Anyway, Abraham ran to his wife Sarah, and instructed her to get baking; then he hurried to his herd and hand picked a young calf and gave it to one of his servants with instructions to dress it hurriedly. And when all was ready, baked and killed and dressed and roasted, he himself took milk and butter, and brought them to his guests. It should be noted that Abraham had hundreds of servants male and female in his household to whom he could have given instructions to have all of this done while he sat and chatted with his guests; but Abraham personally did all of those things. To be sure he highly esteemed his guests. They were royalty and he treated them as such; but Abraham more than anything else wanted personally to wait upon his Lord, because he was grateful and excited over what the Lord had done for him. After the guests had eaten they asked after Sarah, Abraham’s wife and he told them she was in the house. But what they said concerning Sarah is too important to be added here and deserves a day all its own. More