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Day by Day Devotional - Year 1 of 5
Devotional: January 25th

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Genesis 16:1-16

Alas, after wonderful proofs of Abram’s faith, we find another failure in the life of the patriarch. He wants in some way to help God to keep His promise. Instead of waiting patiently to be given the son who had been foretold, he listens to Sarai, his wife. And Hagar, the servant who had probably been brought up from Egypt after Abram’s first lapse, is going to become the mother of Ishmael.

After she had been the subject of sad quarrelling in the house of the man of God, Hagar flees far away from her mistress. But the LORD takes care of the poor servant. He meets her on the pathway of her own will and becomes for her the God who reveals Himself (v. 13). In the Angel of the LORD, we can recognize the Lord Jesus Himself. Dear reader, have you experienced this decisive meeting? Has God revealed Himself to you as a living Person? It is in Christ that He has made Himself known (John 8:19; 2 Corinthians 4:6). And it is close to this living Saviour that we find an abundance of the living water of grace of which the well of Beer-lahai-roi speaks (John 4:14). Notice what the Angel says to Hagar, "Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself" (v. 9). Humbling ourselves and confessing our sins — these are the first things the Lord asks of us when He has revealed Himself to our souls.

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