Soon Comes the Promise

Lessons From Hagar

Part Three

As it reads in Genesis 16 and 21, Hagar’s life proves that no thing and no one can thwart the promises of God.

On two occasions, The Master communes with the servant on the subject of promise. The promise of a son, his name, and who and what he would be. These affirming conversations gifts to the scared, despising, and mistreated slave are evidence to us that God has a greater glory in mind for us too. One that He is willing and able to reveal to us in our dependency on Him.

Although life’s twists and turns make us doubt the promises shining from our faces yet dim to our own eyes. At times confused on whether God’s written promises are for or even about us. Perhaps even at a breaking point thinking, surely this life and the events therein could not be part of a promise from God. But in Hagar’s story God answers.

Even in the death of a dream, union, or ability, there is a birthing of something of new. Something that God has designed. We may not understand it, but we haven’t been predestined, called, justified, or glorified to understand the twists and turns but rather to trust that the promise can withstand a swerving route.

Just as you cannot understand the path of the wind or the mystery of a tiny baby growing in its mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the activity of God, who does all things. (Ecclesiastes 11:5)