Day 13: Zechariah and
Elizabeth
Read Luke 1:1-24
It had been nearly four hundred years since God had given a prophecy to the
people of Israel (last lesson). He had been silent so long the people wondered
if He had forsaken them. But then He sent His angel to a priest serving in the
temple. This priest was an old man, and his wife was also old enough so she
could no longer have children. Yet God told Zechariah he was about to have a
son born.
Zechariah doubted God, which was surprising because he had been trained in
God’s ways from a young child, trained to be a priest. He knew how God had
given a child to Abraham and Sarah in their old age. Because of Zechariah’s
doubt, God made it impossible for him to speak, and said he would regain the
ability to talk when his son was born.
How often do we doubt what God says to us, even though we read it in the Bible?
Maybe, like for Zechariah, God’s words just do not make sense because we cannot
see how what He says can happen. Maybe we are listening to someone else trying
to explain what God REALLY said, but it is not the same as the words in the
Bible. For Zechariah, the moment he was unable to speak he knew he had done the
wrong thing by not trusting God. But now he would have to wait for the birth of
his son before he would be able to speak again.
*When did you doubt what God said to you? What happened?
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