Who is Sarah in the book, All of the Women of the Bible?

Sarah is "the mother of nations". She is the first generation of people known in connection with the "House of Israel" as a religion and as a tribe. Her issue was that early on in her life she learned of this destiny. Then as she went along, she had to cope with the obvious - it wasn't happening. Here is where doubt was given more than an ample opportunity to infect her, according to the author. Then, after enduring a great deal that made it seem as if she would not actually experience what God has assured her of, it did come to pass. Edith Deen describes the situation as having made much of Sarah's life a kind of spiritual trial simply because she had this knowledge of her own destiny hanging around waiting to be fulfilled. Everyone knows the saying, "The watched pot never boils." How Sarah coped is significant.

Sarah's husband Abraham had received a divine order from God. It is a message that would have confounded most today. God told him to just leave everything he knew, and go into the unknown and trust that God was going to lead him into a situation where he was going to become the head of an entire nation. Abraham went ahead and did this. This may not seem to be such a miracle, but when seen through a modern lens, Abraham might have visited a mental health professional and bitten down his own fingernails and heeded the counter advice to just keep his stable job in his own country together with his relatives. Meanwhile, God is maybe getting irritated and impatient. So, Abraham obeyed God and won - daring to trust this spiritual voice.