Genesis 18:1–15
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in an age that is profoundly uncomfortable with the supernatural. Our sophisticated, secular world has domesticated God, turning Him into a celestial therapist, a vague spiritual force, or, for the more honest among them, a myth. He is kept at a safe distance, confined to the realm of private feeling and personal piety. But the God of the Bible is not a tame God. He is the kind of God who shows up in the middle of a hot, dusty afternoon and expects lunch. This passage in Genesis 18 is a stunning intrusion of the divine into the mundane. It is a story of radical hospitality, of covenant promises that defy biology, and of the collision between human doubt and divine power. This is not a vision in the night or a disembodied voice from a whirlwind.