How long do we wait?

22/2/2018
When you get a promise from someone  and you believe them, how long do you wait for the promise to surface? Abram was told he would have a son and he believed God, so how long did Sarai his wife wait to try and make this promise a reality of her own. She asked her servant Hagar to be what we call nowadays a surrogate wife. Doesn't look as if Hagar had any say in the matter and Abram slept with her.  She became pregnant and then received a beating from Sarai and Hagar ran away. None of this would have happened if Sarai had waited, but I guess we all get impatient  at times to see realisations of promises. An angel visited Hagar and told her that she would have a son who would be made into a great nation and to call him Ishmael and to go back to being Sarai's handmaiden again. Thus another  new nation was born.  Was this in God's plan all along?  Did God know of Sarai's impatience?

Something to ponder again about promises we may have believed were for us and haven't happened yet.

Bye for now