And when Sarai dealt hardly with her (Hagar), she fled
from her face.
If you are not familiar with this portion of scripture it
is taken from Genesis 16:6. Sarai, the wife of Abram was barren. She was too
old to conceive and decided to take matters into her own hands. She literally
gave her maid Hagar to her husband for the purpose of conceiving a child which
she would raise as her own.
Well just like many plans that we concoct, Sarai’s plan
blew up in her face. Hagar despised Sarai after she became pregnant. Sarai
retaliated by treating Hagar harshly; Hagar fled.
Sometimes when we feel we are treated harshly, are
subjected to adverse circumstances by no fault of our own, or become so sick
and tired of certain situations we too may feel like Hagar and want to flee.
We want to leave whatever we feel may be causing our
pain. We desire a change. We may feel like we have done everything within our
power to improve our situation. If our circumstances involve someone we are
trying to help we may even start to lose hope that the person we are trying to
help will ever change.
We may be forging ahead as hard as we can to accomplish a
goal, follow our passion, or reach our destiny but feel like we are falling
short.
Regardless of what brings us to the point that we want to
flee or give up we must reconcile ourselves with our situation.
When Hagar fled an angel of the Lord came to her and told
her to return to the circumstance which she fled. He comforted her by saying
her cries had been heard and she would give birth to a son whose seed would be
multiplied. Even though Hagar’s pregnancy was not her plan it was still part of
her destiny.
On our journey to reach our destiny we may find ourselves
in situations which are unfavorable, paths we would not have selected ourselves,
or perhaps the paths we are on are our own choice, but are not the best choice.
What do we do? Do we flee as Hagar did? We see that even though she fled, she
was told to return to her situation because that was where she was supposed to
be.
When times are difficult our natural instinct may be to
flee, but if God has allowed us to be in certain situations, He may want us to
dig our heels in, stand firm, gather our strength and move forward in what He
has predestined for our lives.
We read in Luke 12:48 …for unto whomsoever much is given,
of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they
will ask the more. Don’t think it peculiar or strange if you find yourself in
trying, difficult or what may even feel like unbearable situations. As a matter
of fact we should count it all joy as we are encouraged to do by James, when we
fall into divers temptations; knowing this, that the trying of our faith
worketh patience.
Oftentimes when we are close to our breakthrough, the
goal that we have been working so hard to reach, able to see a flicker at the
end of the tunnel the enemy brings out the big guns trying to get us to give
up, cave in and quit.
Well, I am here to tell you that you are almost there.
Don’t flee. Don’t allow the enemy to rob you of what God has told you is yours.
Stay the course. You will find that everything you have endured will help you
to be a blessing to someone else as you revel in God’s grace and glory.
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