'A Huge Mistake.'
Genesis 16:3.
a) Sarai, Abram's wife.
b) Took Hagar, her Egyptian slave.
c) And gave her to her husband Abram
d) As a wife for him.
e) This happened
f) After Abram lived in the (promised) land of Canaan ten years.
(This QT reveals A Huge Mistake)
PRAYER: For our family to function in a Godly way.
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'Love.'
1 Corinthians 13:4-5.
a) Suffers long.
b) Is kind.
c) Does not envy.
d) Does not behave rudely.
e) Does not seek its own.
f) Is not provoked.
g) Thinks no evil.
(This Second one gives me a Prayer and longing to see the evidence of Love in the Church)
PRAYER: For the Lord to fill His Church with His Love.
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Chris.
Sarai took Hagar, her Egyptian slave, to be a wife for Abram. This may have been acceptable, but obviously not the best way, in the days of the Old Testament. Today it is obviously not. We know the reasons why Sarai did this and we can 'file' it under 'Old Testament' in our mind, but that does not make it right. Dysfunctional family always creates many problems, whatever culture we may be living in.
