Have you been at the end of your rope? Have you been at the point of barely hanging on? Have you been ready to give up only to have something change your mind at the last minute? What caused you to hold on for a bit longer. Where did your reversal of fortune come from?
We all struggle through a variety of challenging situations throughout our lives. We may even go through a very difficult time, a situation that has us believing everything is about to come crashing down around our heads. We may believe we cannot continue to carry on.
Hagar believed she had come to the end. She had been sent away by Abraham at Sarah’s demand with nothing but a container of water and the clothes on her back. When the water ran out, she had Ishmael set under some bushes to protect him from the sun, then she sat several yards away, so she didn’t have to watch him die. She was desperate and saw no way to save herself or her son. That’s when God appeared and provided an answer.
We can find ourselves in desperate situations. When we do, we need to reach to God. He will hear our cry. But we cannot wait until things are desperate to start a relationship with God. We must start that relationship and build upon it beforehand. Hagar would have had a relationship with God, having lived with Abraham and Sarah. She likely knew to pray and believed God was all-powerful. The deeper we can grow our relationship with God and the more we depend on him during good times, the better prepared we are to depend on him with difficulties come.
I pray we all grow our relationship with God. I pray we seek to know God better. I pray each one of us recognize our experiences with God and learn to trust him more each day. Grow your relationship with God. Get to know God better. Recognize your experiences with God. Trust God more each day.
Genesis 21:19-21 Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink. God was with the boy, and he grew up; he lived in the wilderness and became an expert with the bow. He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
Marty Pressey 