Hagar and Ishmael

Abram agreed. This took place 10 years after Abram had come to Cannan for the first time. Back then it was a custom to sleep with the maid or a concubine if you weren't able to have a child from your wife. So that's how it is legal for him to have Hagar as his wife. But it is never been said that God accepted such a matramony. Here we can see by agreeing to what Sarai said, he listened but he never asked what God had to say in this matter. Sometimes as human beings we also face such a delamma. We don't ask what God wants and we try to bring the solution on our own. Instead we should  trust Him ,have faith in Him and trust in His promise.

So Abram slept with Hagar and she became pregnant. After that she started to behave very arrogantly towards Sarai. So she said to Abram "It's all your fault. Now this servant girl of mine despises. And it was I who let her be your wife. May the Lord judge you for doing this to me!. 'You have my permission to punish the girl as you see fit," Abram replied. So Sarai treated her badly and she ran away. The angel of the Lord found Hagar near a spring in the desert along the road to Shur.

The angel said "Hagar, Sarai's maid, where have you come from? Where are you going?" She says "I am running away from my mistress". So the angel says"Go back to your mistress act as you should. For I will make you into a great nation. Yes, you are pregnant and your baby will be a son. You will name him Ishmael ('God hears'), because God has heard your woes. He will be as free and untamed as a wild donkey! He will be against everyone, and everyone will feel the same toward him. But he will live near the rest of his kin."

After this incident Hagar spoke of the Lord as"the God looked upon me." For it was He who appeared to her.For she thought,"I saw God and lived to tell it." Later that well was named "The well of the living one who sees me." It lies between Kadesh and Bered. So Hagar gave Abram a son. Abram named him Ishmael. Abram was 86 years old at that time.

- Try to always find what God wants you to do. So never try to runaway from your problems. Try to take advice from the Lord as it is the best advice you can get.

-  Remember, even when you are a part of someone's schemes God will not foresake you. He will provide something good from that bad situation.

- We should not blame each other when the idea doesn't work. As it was Sarai's idea and when the plan didn't work he blamed Abram. So we should take responsibility of our own actions.