“The
LORD has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can
build a family through her.”
Ever
wonder why The Palestinians hate the Jews…to the degree they would rather
annihilate them than live with them? This verse is the answer.
Abram
didn’t quite get God’s plan so he devised one of his own. After all…if he was
to be the father of many nations he had to have a child. So…if God wouldn’t
take care of it Abram would. Ishmael was born.
But
this wasn’t God’s plan, It was Abram’s….or more properly, Sarah’s
Ishmael
was never part of God’s plan. Ishmael and his descendents were completely left
out of the Abrahamic Covenant…which is why they don’t have a homeland
today. They were mad then…and they are still mad today. Jealousy and envy
have a long shelf-life. In this case…5,000 years!
All the
turmoil in the Middle East today could have been avoided if Abram would have
trusted God on this point. I would think the Palestinians would be angrier with
God or Abraham than with the Jews…but emotions can do funny things.
Think
hard about this next time you think you have a better idea than God.
Live
boldly out there today…
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