CHRISTIAN SINGLES DATING
GUIDE: WORKING WITH ANGELS
THREE KEY PRINCIPLES
And Hagar was judged and was punished. Sarah was angry,
she wouldn’t mind even if Hagar died. She sent her off.
That looks cruel too. Sarah was also wrong. This is an
imperfect situation. Thank God in imperfect situation your
angels still can work. If angels were to wait until we are
perfect to work they will have no job to do. In Genesis 4:
6 Sarah dealt harshly with her. I mean she treated Hagar
cruelly. And Hagar suffered until she couldn’t take it
any more and ran off. Genesis 4: 7 The angel of the
Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness on
the way to Shur. And the angel said, "Hagar where
have you come from, where are you going. I am fleeing from
the presence of my mistress Sarah. Then the angel said,
return to your mistress, submit yourself under her hand. I
will multiply your descendants so that they shall not be
counted for the multitude. She is a woman who is
suffering for the mistakes she has made. And God is a God
of compassion. God loves the needy. No matter even if they
suffer for their own sins and their wrongdoings, God is
still grieved.
Do you remember when the world was being judged in
Noah's time and it was to be punished, it says in Genesis
6 God grieved. See God loves those who are suffering,
those who are needy. The suffering of mankind touches Him.
He knows somehow in the whole chain of events, it all came
because of the fall of man. You know why the angel came.
Hagar had no other road to turn. And her best was not
really the best in God's sight. She thought that the best
was running away. The best was not running away. Let me
tell you in some of our lives, some hardships, some
difficulties, sometimes we think the best is running away.
The best in our mind or in our understanding may not be
God's best. When she had done her best in her situation;
when she couldn't take it any more and rather die, God
sent an angel. She reached a point of maximum tolerance.
And the angel said, "Go back."
