Women of God
Hagar-El Roi
When Hagar fled, the Lord met her. He saw her pain, he comforted her, and encouraged her. He told her what to next. And Hagar named him: El Roi אֵל רֳאִי, “the God who sees”. Hagar is the first and only person in the entire Bible to give a name to the Lord. All other names are revealed by God himself. Yet she is a woman, a slave, a foreigner, in rebellion and a runaway. No one is invisible to the Lord God in their distress. You are not invisible to the Lord God in your distress. El Roi! I could sing it all day long!
Lord God, how you love us. Not one of us is invisible to you. You search out and save the lost sheep. You fed Elijah in his sorrow and let him rest. You walk with each of us all the days of our lives- if only we had eyes to see it! And when the time is right you will comfort and deliver us from evil. Open the eyes of the world to see you and to seek you, as you do for us. Praises be to El Roi!
The angel of the Lord found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur. And he said, “Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?”
“I’m running away from my mistress Sarai,” she answered.
Then the angel of the Lord told her, “Go back to your mistress and submit to her.”
The angel added, “I will increase your descendants so much that they will be too numerous to count.”
The angel of the Lord also said to her: “You are now pregnant and you will give birth to a son. You shall name him Ishmael, for the Lord has heard of your misery.”
…She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “I have now seen the One who sees me.”
Genesis 16:7-11, 13 NIV
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Hagar-El Roi
When Hagar fled, the Lord met her. He saw her pain, he comforted her, and encouraged her. He told her what to next. And Hagar named him: El Roi אֵל רֳאִי, “the God who sees”. Hagar is the first and only person in the entire Bible to give a name to the Lord. All other names are revealed by God himself. Yet she is a woman, a slave, a foreigner, in rebellion and a runaway. No one is invisible to the Lord God in their distress. You are not invisible to the Lord God in your distress. El Roi! I could sing it all day long!
Lord God, how you love us. Not one of us is invisible to you. You search out and save the lost sheep. You fed Elijah in his sorrow and let him rest. You walk with each of us all the days of our lives- if only we had eyes to see it! And when the time is right you will comfort and deliver us from evil. Open the eyes of the world to see you and to seek you, as you do for us. Praises be to El Roi!
The angel of the Lord found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur. And he said, “Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?”
“I’m running away from my mistress Sarai,” she answered.
Then the angel of the Lord told her, “Go back to your mistress and submit to her.”
The angel added, “I will increase your descendants so much that they will be too numerous to count.”
The angel of the Lord also said to her: “You are now pregnant and you will give birth to a son. You shall name him Ishmael, for the Lord has heard of your misery.”
…She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “I have now seen the One who sees me.”
Genesis 16:7-11, 13 NIV
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Women of God
Hagar-El Roi
When Hagar fled, the Lord met her. He saw her pain, he comforted her, and encouraged her. He told her what to next. And Hagar named him: El Roi אֵל רֳאִי, “the God who sees”. Hagar is the first and only person in the entire Bible to give a name to the Lord. All other names are revealed by God himself. Yet she is a woman, a slave, a foreigner, in rebellion and a runaway. No one is invisible to the Lord God in their distress. You are not invisible to the Lord God in your distress. El Roi! I could sing it all day long!
Lord God, how you love us. Not one of us is invisible to you. You search out and save the lost sheep. You fed Elijah in his sorrow and let him rest. You walk with each of us all the days of our lives- if only we had eyes to see it! And when the time is right you will comfort and deliver us from evil. Open the eyes of the world to see you and to seek you, as you do for us. Praises be to El Roi!
The angel of the Lord found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur. And he said, “Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?”
“I’m running away from my mistress Sarai,” she answered.
Then the angel of the Lord told her, “Go back to your mistress and submit to her.”
The angel added, “I will increase your descendants so much that they will be too numerous to count.”
The angel of the Lord also said to her: “You are now pregnant and you will give birth to a son. You shall name him Ishmael, for the Lord has heard of your misery.”
…She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “I have now seen the One who sees me.”
Genesis 16:7-11, 13 NIV
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