Genesis 16:4 And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes. 5 And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the Lord judge between me and thee.
In Sarah’s and Abraham’s case, God’s perfect plan did not originally include any cussing and fighting between two desperate housewives. Neither was it ever God’s intention, that Hagar and Ishmael should evicted and be put out on the street. But by them acting upon the false premise that God was taking too long, they plunged themselves and Hagar’s offspring into deep trouble, the adverse consequences of which are still reverberating in our world today, many centuries after the hasty decision was made.
[Patriarchs And Prophets pp 145] Flattered with her new position as Abraham's wife and hoping to be the mother of the great nation to descend from him, Hagar became proud. Mutual jealousies disturbed the peace of the once happy home. Forced to listen to the complaints of both, Abraham vainly endeavored to restore harmony. Though it was at Sarah's entreaty that he had married Hagar, she now reproached him as the one at fault.
She desired to banish her rival. Hagar's haughty spirit wouldn’t brook the harshness which her insolence had provoked. “When Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face.” She made her way to the desert, and as she rested beside a fountain, lonely and friendless, an angel of the Lord, in human form, appeared to her. Addressing her as “Hagar, Sarai's maid,” to remind her of her position and her duty, he bade her, “Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.”
Genesis 16:7 And the angel of the Lord found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur. 8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.
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