Genesis c.16

v.11…you shall name her Ishmael for the Lord has heard your misery.


Sarai blamed God for their barrenness and instead she chose to decide for her own on starting a family. Sarai ordered Hagar, her servant, to sleep with Abram, so that she could conceive. Sarai hoped to start a family with Hagar’s baby, but it backfired on her. Hagar began to despise Sarai and Sarai mistreated Hagar. Hagar Fled and the Angel of the Lord found her near a spring in the desert where the Lord gave his promise to Hagar to increase her descendants.

To tell the truth I don’t like this story, it may take time before I understand biblical stories like these.

But that’s the Bible it’s a book of the stories and history of humanity and how God acted within history; it is not a collection of fairy tales.

The Lord hears our misery.