Sarah cont. Genesis16:1-16

Well first let's Wish Happy Birthday to Georgie Luther, Pam Fatheree, and Jody Chilton. I also ask that you ladies and Gentlemen Pray for The Treadwell family who lost their father/father-in-law and also for Mrs. Tommie Hines who hasn't been feeling quite up to par. I really wanted to discuss Sarah and her choices that she made that we touched on in the last blog. Sarah was a woman who had given up hope. We should also remember that Sarah giving her maid to Abram was well within the normal marriage contracts of the time. So this was not something that was shocking or strange by any means most people of that era would have thought that Abram was a very patient man. The normal timeframe to wait for a woman to produce children was 2 years yet Abram's wife Sarah was 90 years old. They had been married for a very long time. Sarah was trying to provide her husband with an heir. Normally at this time in history Sarah would have claimed Hagar's son and it would become Sarah's son but when Hagar was able to get pregnant she lost respect for Sarah and basically forgot her place. Sarah in turn got angry and I doubt every looked at Ishmael as her child. Matter of fact Sarah was abusing Hagar which is why Hagar ran away until God sent an angel to her to have her return. This story is a prime example of how God deals with our interference in his plans. God planned for Abram to be the line that Jesus would eventually come from but Sarah messed this up by arranging for Hagar to come into the picture. God however says okay I am going to take this and make something good from it so he allowed Ishmeal's line to be separate from Issac's line and therefore Abram's offspring had many nations. We interfere all of the time and God takes our detours and makes them into a part of his plan. Dear Lord thank you for seeing the plan in everything we do including the tangled lives we lead. Help us to see your plan instead of ours and to follow the path that you have set before us Amen