Where Have You Come From and Where Are You Going?
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Genesis 16:08 The Context: God told Abraham and his wife Sarah that they would have a son and a vast offspring. When it didn’t happen immediately, they “helped” God by conceiving a child by Sarah’s servant Hagar. In the understandable tension after this son arrived, Sarah treated Hagar with unbearable contempt. So Hagar ran away. “The angel of the LORD found her by a spring of water in the wilderness…” In this context God asked Hagar the following question.
God Asks Us: “Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?
jne: Many people know first hand the terrors of contempt. But we all have experiences of trying to get away from situations of varying degrees of heartache, confusion, loneliness and hopelessness. God told Hagar to go back to Sarah and serve her. God does not always ask us to go back into seemingly impossible situations. But the fundamental thing that Hagar experienced is true for all of us. She responded by saying in verse 13: “You are a God of seeing (who sees me), truly here I have seen Him who looks after me.”
In every moment of every circumstance of our lives, in every time we think we know where we are coming from and think we either know or don’t know where we are going, God sees, and is looking after us. That sure knowledge can be the foundation on which we follow Him in each step of whatever direction He leads.
Gen 21:9-21 God hears 25:12-18 God keeps His promises
Genesis 16:08 The Context: God told Abraham and his wife Sarah that they would have a son and a vast offspring. When it didn’t happen immediately, they “helped” God by conceiving a child by Sarah’s servant Hagar. In the understandable tension after this son arrived, Sarah treated Hagar with unbearable contempt. So Hagar ran away. “The angel of the LORD found her by a spring of water in the wilderness…” In this context God asked Hagar the following question.
God Asks Us: “Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?
jne: Many people know first hand the terrors of contempt. But we all have experiences of trying to get away from situations of varying degrees of heartache, confusion, loneliness and hopelessness. God told Hagar to go back to Sarah and serve her. God does not always ask us to go back into seemingly impossible situations. But the fundamental thing that Hagar experienced is true for all of us. She responded by saying in verse 13: “You are a God of seeing (who sees me), truly here I have seen Him who looks after me.”
In every moment of every circumstance of our lives, in every time we think we know where we are coming from and think we either know or don’t know where we are going, God sees, and is looking after us. That sure knowledge can be the foundation on which we follow Him in each step of whatever direction He leads.
Gen 21:9-21 God hears 25:12-18 God keeps His promises