"Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? And shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?.... Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also? And the Lord said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old? Is any thing too hard for the Lord?.... Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And He said, Nay, but thou didst laugh" (Genesis 17:17, 18:12-15).
Abraham laughed when he worshipped about
The promise that God would yet give him son.
Sarah laughed also, but God saw her doubt,
Reproving her questioning this could be done.
She tried to deny what could never be hid,
For God heard the laughter and thought of her heart.
She said that she didn't, but God said she did,
For God was the Searcher of her inward part.
Looking at laughter in this special case
Gives us an insight to God's holy view:
So may He search and reprove by His grace
Each thought underlying what we say and do.
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