In last week's episode: Abe has a spit braai then negotiates with God on some conditions to destroy a city, unmentionable stuff happens with Lot's daughters, Abe pimps Sarah again and soon after sends his first son to desert boot camp, God finally delivers on his promise to give Abraham a son from Sarah, and Abraham narrowly escapes slitting his throat. Like sands through the hourglass, these are the days of Abe's wives......
I'm skipping huge chunks of often-repeated bible stories, but I wanted to record one thing I found interesting. Abraham is all about faith: He goes where God asks, believes in God's promises, does what God tells him too etc. However when Sarah dies, the woman who is pretty special in the whole account, there's no big faith decision or heavenly fireworks around her burial. Abraham simply negotiates a price on a place to bury her. In isolation these seems pretty ordinary, but it comes straight after the story of Abraham being willing to sacrifice Isaac.
It made me wonder if there are some decisions in our lives that God sees as big, but others that he might not be so bothered with. Sometimes it's all tears, faith, snot and prayer as we petition God for guidance, and other times we just need to buy the flipping field.
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I think thats a good observation. I also think that it shows how unimportant in the greater scheme of things, our body is after death?
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