It never works out well when try to hurry God up. Sarah is impatient with God’s plan to provide an heir so she offers a solution, not a good one and Abram agrees to it. Sarah’s handmaid, Hagar, has a baby. She flaunts her pregnancy before Sarah who then mistreats her. God finds Hagar running away and gives to her a promise that her child would become a great nation. She willingly and obediently returns to Sarah as God instructed. What we can learn from all this is that we are to always trust God no matter how long the silence may be.
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