Special People/Abraham & Sari/The Mistake? part 4 c

Sari must have been getting awfully tired of waiting on God to give her the child that he had promised Abraham and herself. Maybe she had just given up on the whole idea that she would ever have her own. And so she came up with another plan.  But it didn't turn out so well.

She told her husband "Go sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her." And what did Abraham do? Why he refused, of course. After all God promised them their own son. Right? Well, yes on God's promise. But no that he did not refuse to do what Sari had told him to do.. He did sleep with her. Really? What was he thinking? Sari had wanted a child so bad that she took matters into her own hands and did things her way. And as I said, it turned out to be not the best of plans.

Sari gave her slave Hagar to be Abraham 's wife. He slept with her and she conceived and her pregnancy would set off a whole different nation of people. But that is later in this story. For now we will stay on the course.

Once Hagar knew she was pregnant, she was  really so happy with her mistress. Ahh, nope. She actually began to "despise" Sari. And evidently Sari was none too happy with her either. In Genesis 16:5 Sari seems to blame the whole situation on Abraham. So what does he do? He tells Sari that the slave belongs to her and to deal with her however she wanted to.

Sari did. Verse 6 says it was harshly that she dealt with her. We don't know exactly what Sari did, but whatever it was, it made Hagar run away.

 Was this the end of their story? Where did Hagar go? Did she  return home? What about her baby? What about Sari and Abraham? Did God ever give them the child that he promised them? And finally, what has their story to do with us today? Maybe you know the answers. I hope you will come back tomorrow.

March 10, 2019 Promise: For those that find me find life and receive favor from the Lord. Proverbs 8:35

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