Hagar and Ishmael Sent Away
Gen 21:8 – 21
Water. It’s interesting how water solves this.
Abraham hangs a thread of hope on the shoulder of Hagar. He has known her. Together they have this half grown child together. His physical legacy to Ishmael and his mother is a skin of water.
And it won’t be enough.
In their lament, as Ishmael and Hagar wait to die, their cry is for more than desperate thirst.
But their salvation comes in water. An angel and water.
Yet this resurrection is more than physical. They also have met the living God who will lead and guide.
Water and life – and the knowing of the true God.
I once visited Arabia. There, a taxi driver said to me, “We are all sons of Abraham”. I smiled an agreement but at that moment I was skeptical.
Water and life – and the knowing of the true God.
