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)
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