Guest post by author C.A. Simonson Genesis 16:13 – “You are the God who sees me.” Alone, Hagar sat crying beside the road. It was Sarai’s idea for Abram to give me a child, she thought. Why was she so cruel to me? I’ve loved serving her, but now I hate her. Abe loves me …
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Faith Under Trial: The Responses of Hagar and Abraham
By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son, of whom it was said, “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.” He considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively …
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Well Encounters, Part two: Hagar
How quickly I forgot that promise! In the midst of my sorrow, I saw nothing but desert and death. I overlooked God’s pledge to me and to Ishmael. Had I remembered it, I would have clung to hope. Had I recalled God’s faithfulness when I wandered into the desert that first time, perhaps my outlook and my response would have been entirely different.