Genesis 18
One day while Abraham was sitting at his tent door, he looked and saw three men. He went to meet them and brought water to wash their feet: and he and Sarah prepared a meal. Abraham stood by while they were eating under the tree.
As the men were eating, one said to Abraham, “Sarah, thy wife shall have a son.” Sarah was just behind in the tent door. As she heard this, she laughed within herself. Not a word did she say, yet the One who had promised her a son was the God of heaven. He was there in the form of a man. He knows all our thoughts. The Lord asked Abraham, “Wherefore did Sarah laugh? Is anything too hard for the Lord?” Again He said, “Sarah shall have a son.” This makes us know that God is almighty—nothing is too hard for Him. Those idols in the temple are not like this. An idol is nothing, can do nothing, but God can do everything. As soon as Sarah knew that God could see her heart, she was afraid and said that she did not laugh. Such a lie is no use before God. So He said, “Nay, but thou didst laugh.”
Oh, friends! Please remember that God can see your inner hearts. Yet He loves you. He wants to take away your sins and to give you everlasting life.
Afterward these three men walked toward Sodom, and Abraham went with them. The Lord said, “Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do?” The Lord said again that because the sin of Sodom was very bad He would go down to see if that city was as bad as its cry. When Abraham heard that God might punish Sodom, where Lot lived, Abraham was sorry. But Abraham knew that God is love; and would hear his prayer, so he came and said, “Wilt Thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?” Perhaps there are fifty righteous within the city, wilt Thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? He asked too: “Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?” The Lord said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.” Abraham went on asking, “Perhaps there shall lack five of the fifty righteous; wilt thou destroy all the city for the lack of five?” The Lord said, “If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.” Abraham prayed for Sodom again, and again, that perhaps there might be forty...thirty...twenty found there. The Lord said every time, “I will not destroy it.” Still he prayed, “Oh let not the Lord be angry,” perhaps “ten shall be found there;” and the Lord said, “I will not destroy it for ten’s sake.” Then Abraham stopped and the Lord went His way.
He had not been angry for his praying; He was glad to listen. If you pray aright to God, He will never be angry: He sees and hears and loves and He promises, “Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” If you are not saved, come to God through Jesus and receive forgiveness by the work which Jesus did on the cross to wash your sins away.