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Hagar: the God who sees meGenesis 16:1-16Length: Long

Eat

Read the passage slowly, read it again, then retell it in your own words. If you can't retell it, read it once more.

  • Read
  • Reread
  • Retell

Digest

Answer from what the passage actually says — stay in the text.

  1. What does this passage show me about God?

    • How is Hagar treated by Sarai and Abram, and what does God do and say when he finds her?

  2. What does it show me about people — and about myself?

    • Who in your community is used and then sent away, and would say nobody sees them?

  3. What will I obey this week? (a concrete step, with a day)

    • Who will you go and find this week, out where they have gone?

  4. Who will I tell?

    • Who could you tell that God saw a foreign slave woman before he was ever called by that name?

Grow

Growth is God's part, not yours. Do the cycle faithfully and trust Him to give the growth (1 Corinthians 3:6–7).

Pray

God, a used and discarded slave woman gave you a name — the God who sees me — and you had come looking for her in the desert. See us, and make us people who see.