There are two very different kinds of laughter in the story of Sarah.
there is the laughing in Genesis 18:13-15. This is the laughter of
unbelief, laughing at the Lord, with the proud attitude that God's Word
cannot be taken seriously. There is the laughter of faith, the laughter
which rejoices in the Lord - "God has brought me laughter and everyone
who hears about me will laugh with me" (Genesis 21:6). This is the
rejoicing of Sarah at the birth of Isaac. Hagar and Ishmael are not
forgotten - God's sun shines on the righteous and the unrighteous
(Matthew 5:45). The final section - Genesis 21:22-34 - sees Abraham
acting more nobly than he did in Genesis 21. It ends with Abraham
worshipping the Lord, the everlasting God (Genesis 21:33).
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