Why Not?

(Mat 3:9 KJV)  And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

(Proverbs 8 also read)

Jesus himself says God the Father can do things which makes no sense to us.  I mean you could make creatures and call them children of Abraham, but you would also need to have a family tree.  They would need to be traced all the way back to Abraham to look genuine.

God could do this.  Jesus says so.  A question that occurred to me as I was thinking about the power of God, and how He worked in history was, “Why didn’t He?”

Think of all the things that God could have done just by proclamation.  Did Jesus really have to put up with the thick skulls of the disciples as He tried to pound His truth into their heads and hearts?  Did Israel really need to wander around in the wilderness for 40 years?  For that matter, did He really need to create the world in seven days?  Why not one day?  Why not instantaneously?

It seems to me that God works through processes.  He called Abraham.  Eventually He established the covenant.  He could have done that from the beginning.  He didn’t.  And the whole purpose of calling Abraham was to create the people that would give the historical background needed with the coming of the perfect Lamb of God.

So?  We tend to think that God is going to work overnight miracles.  He has.  People will testify to it, and we have a record of it.  But He tends to work more in a long process of development.  Note that the higher animals such as human beings take years and years to develop.  A turtle can break out of its shell and head for the sea immediately.  It takes a baby weeks to realize that that thing waving front of his face is his hand.  Be patient.  Let God do it his way.