Jehovah El Roi

I I am good seed, by Grace Seed of Abraham The new testament says One seed, many fruit in the nations (ethnoi) But is my fruit good By worldly terms, Yes By biblical standards, No - And does it hurt Sometines, for no reason, I awake Sleepless ... Until my wife awakes, too - Pulls me closer Then tells me later: I listen to your breathing ... As you go back to sleep and shalom II He is Jehovah Shalom He loved Jacob, but ESAU differently - As with Isaac and Ishmael - Yet He blessed both, materially, But Isaac became a descriptor of Yah So, if I feel like Ishmael, Esau, Rahab ... The God of Abraham still made me And makes me anew He never made nothing but masterpieces. Like Hagar Who sometimes we forget Encountered God twice Yahwah El Roi (Genesis 21) And "The God who hears me" NOTE: Hagar encountered God in Genesis 21, but God heard Ishmael, when Hagar ran out of water, when sentcaway by angry Sarah. Abraham was reluctant to indulge Sarah & lose Ishmael, his son. Once before he quickly obeyed when Sarah put out a pregnant Hagar; God sent her back!!. Here, God assured Abraham Ishmael will become a great nation (too). In the desert of Paran, at a (political) place called Beersheba, pain became a vehicle for Revelation as "God who hears" is evident in the name & saving of Ishmael. Hagar met Yahwah El Roi in an earlier chapter, but God opened her eyes to see the well at Beersheba, when all hope was lost for her son! Shalom, shalom! ( I loved writing my sermons on Hagar in Maryland & Virginia, 2018-2019)