Tag: Hagar
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Day 018: Seeing the God Who Sees You (Genesis 16-18)
Hagar—an Egyptian slave, an outcast, a single mother—does something no one else in Scripture dares to do: she names God. She calls Him El-Roi, the God who sees her. And in that naming, we discover a God who not only sees the unseen, but who welcomes being known by them.
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Day 329: Hagar and Sarai and Ishmael and Isaac and Moses and Christ (Galatians 4:21-31)
Paul’s most complex metaphor isn’t meant to trip us up—it’s meant to set us free. In Galatians 4, Hagar and Sarai become a picture of slavery and freedom, law and promise, and the settled identity we have in Christ.
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Day 017: Seeking After The God Who Sees (Genesis 16-18)
13 So she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, “You are a God of seeing, for she said, “Truly here I have seen him who looks after me.” Genesis 16:13 Originally written January 17, 2021 Update, January 17, 2022: In the year since we buried her husband, this woman I wrote about in this post…
