Lets begin with Sarah, Abraham’s wife who believed she was too old to have a child and laughed when the angel came and told her husband Abraham she was going have a baby, a son in her old age. Genesis 18:6-15 The story of Sarah always depicts her as woman that was inpatient to wait on God to have a child and like Eve in the garden of Eden she give her husband a bite of a forbidden fruit her servant an Egyptian to sleep with and conceive. Abraham took Sarah servant Hagar as she had requested, slept with her and she conceived, which brought about sadness and turmoil for both Sarah and Abraham. Hagar conception made Sarah felt belittled and she blamed Abraham when it was her idea to take Hagar her servant to have a child, so they fought, and Hagar ran away pregnant, Genesis 16.

Even with everything bad happening surrounding the situation of Sarah infertility, we can see that both Sarah and Abraham loves each other very much. Sarah made a sacrifice of selfless love for her husband to give him a child, but the cost was more than what she can bare. No woman back then or now in this present day would be emotionally okay with the husband they love sleeping with another woman having a child. There are certain things we are just not willing to share, so we can see in her actions her love for Abraham. And Abraham obedience to his wife was not about getting with a younger woman to sleep with, but maybe a hope of an answered prayer that the woman he loved came up with such an idea to give him an hier, it must be God he probably thought. God never told Abraham the nation will come through his wife , but rather through him, so he was willing to recieve his promise, Genesis 15:1-5. All that had happened to Sarah and Abraham was nothing but the devil you’d think, his temptation and deception. God is omniscient, he already had a plan to deliver them from their situation, because He new of the strong bond and love those two had for each other. When Hagar ran away she met with an angel that told her to go back to her mistress Sarah, and submit to her, Genesis 16:7-9. We know for sure Abraham loved Sarah very much because he told Sarah to do whatever she want to Hagar, the mother who’s carrying his first and maybe his only promised child. What if her intent was to kill Hagar to ease her pain of being despised by her, Genesis 16:5-6 If he loved Hagar he would of tried to protect her from Sarah wrath.

Sarah wasn’t moving the hands of God or lacking in faith. It was logical for her to see the impossibility of her now passed menopausal that she was not going to conceive. God understood her suffering and desperation to bring about his purpose for their lives. We can’t get it confuse when it said, “wait on the Lord” because it doesn’t necessarily means do nothing and the blessing will fall from the sky. Sometimes it’s in our actions that God sits back and watches as we try hard to be obedient and do His will, that He will bless our efforts in faith.

Let’s talk about Job wife. Job 2:8-10 “Are you still maintaining your integrity? Curse God and die!” Is she not going through a mental break down or is this a possession by the devil disguised as mental illness? Look at what caused Job’s wife to snap, Job 2:7-8 Job lost everything and now he’s about to lose his health. Job’s body was afflicted with painful sores from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet and he took a piece of broken pottery and started to scrape himself with it as he sat among the ashes. When I visualize Job sitting among the ashes according to the NIV Bible I could see why his wife snapped cause it’s like your house caught on fire and everything, children, animals, servants all burned to the ground and all Sarah could see is the hopelessness shecfeels within herself reflecting in her husband who’s sitting in the ashes of the burned house picking through everything like if he could find something of value to hold on to. Her spirit crying out why God, why did this had to happen? In anger and frustration instead of yelling and sreaming out her pain and dispair to God she attacks what looks like Job hopelessness in not being able to do anything about the situation. Maybe Job faith was what brought them out of many things and now for the first time nothing it seems he could do is working to fix it. If Job’s wife was faithless and didn’t love him there was no way he could of have it so good and has been chosen by God for such a task. His wife also who was faithfull and love God and Job very much who had pure heart and mind, lost everything else she loved, why then the one and only thing she had left she would want dead. Was her statement about Job or herself? After all flesh of her flesh and bones of her bones they both are as husband and wife. She wanted to die and wished for it, because for the first time in her life with everything going on she lost faith cause things had gotten so bad. Could it had been that she was the weaker in faith?

When we get married we become one flesh, that when Job flesh was touched in his infirmities right away it hit his wife as if his flesh (body) was to cry out to him,”can’t you see I am in pain, do what you must to release me from this pain, even if it means to die.” Was his wife actions crying out to him in desperation. This is connected only through the pure and righteous love you have for one another that comes from God. I believe the devil couldn’t do anything to Job wife, her love for him was the weapon. The devil also was trying to use Job’s love for God to hurt him. When Job spoke these words to his wife in her bitter anguish, “You are talking like a foolish woman. Shall we accept good from God and not trouble?” Job 2:10. To me I understand Job spoke as though she should of known better and she was not being her true self, “snap out of this, you know God, this is not like you.” This is one of the greatest lesson in how to be angry and sin not.

Love can be a battle field, and for the sake of love there should never be a villain only a lover as these saints has shown us.