God Sees You

Applying the Bible · Nov 4, 2021 · 8m

So she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, “You are a God who sees me,” for she said, “Truly here I have seen him who looks after me.” (Genesis 16:13)

As Hagar fled an abusive situation, she settled in the wilderness and I can only imagine the thoughts that ran through her mind as she thought through her past, tried to wrap her mind around what to do in her present, and the fear she must have felt over not knowing what on earth her future might hold. It wasn’t a great time to be a woman alone, since the culture would shun her and she faced possible further abuses depending on who…