A long-standing promise of descendants remains unfulfilled, and the strain leads to a plan born from impatience: Sarai urges Abram to conceive a child through Hagar. What begins as an attempt to solve a problem quickly produces tension. Hagar’s pregnancy alters the household dynamic, creating resentment and blame. Responsibility is avoided, harsh treatment follows, and Hagar flees into the desert.
There, in her vulnerability, she is met unexpectedly by the divine messenger, who calls her by name, asks her to face where she has come from and where she is going, and directs her to return. The instruction is paired with a remarkable promise: her child will live, grow, and become the beginning of a great multitude. She names God as the One who sees her, recognizing that her suffering was not overlooked. The place of this encounter becomes a reminder of being seen and heard.
Hagar returns, bears Ishmael, and the household continues with the reality that their attempt to engineer the promise has not resolved anything; it has simply shown that the promise itself depends on God rather than their interventions.
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