The Relationship Between Abraham And Abram's Teachings

Genesis 16:1-2 “Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had not been able to bear children for him. But she had an Egyptian servant named Hagar. So Sarai said to Abram, “The Lord has prevented me from having children. Go and sleep with my servant. Perhaps I can have children through her.” And Abram agreed with Sarai’s proposal.” (NLT). Abraham and Sarah were at the land of UR when the Lord spoke to Abraham telling him to leave his home country and walk towards the land that He was going to give to him and his descendants. Abraham having faith packed up all his belongings and started walking without knowing where he was going. One-day God told Abraham that he was going to have a child with Sarah even though they were advanced in years, first he believed it but then started to doubt because many years

passed and they still had not seen that promise fulfilled.

After some years without seeing the promise in action Sarah decided to take matters into her own hands and offers her slave to sleep with Abraham to give him a child, without consulting God. Throughout the story you can see that Sarah respected and obeyed her husband. If he decided to do something or go somewhere she obeyed and followed because she loved him. They were able to have a good relationship because she was submissive to her husband. In the verse provided you can see that she wanted to please and bless her husband with children even if they were not her own. She was able to sacrifice sharing her husband with another woman so he can have a descendant.

Abraham gave in to her suggestion and slept with the slave woman and she became pregnant. While the slave woman is pregnant

she starts treating Sarah wrongfully. “So Abram had sexual relations with Hagar, and she became pregnant. But when Hagar knew she was pregnant, she began to treat her mistress, Sarai, with contempt. Then Sarai said to Abram, “This is all your fault! I put my servant into your arms, but now that she’s pregnant she treats me with contempt. The Lord will show who’s wrong-you or me!” Abram replied, “Look, she is your servant, so deal with her as you see fit.” Then Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she finally ran away.” (Genesis 16:4-6NLT). After Sarah decided to give her slave to Abraham she regrets her decision because the slave has a change of attitude towards her. Even though they had a close relationship, when they encountered this situation they were not able to come to a positive agreement to deal with the problem. Abraham just tells her to deal with the problem instead of coming up with a plan to help the situation, instead of listening and helping her he just acts like he doesn’t care and tells her to do whatever she wants. Thankfully even through all the trials she was still able to have a good relationship with her husband that ended up with the promise child. We are able to learn that even through difficult times we are to stay faithful, love and support our loved ones. We have to listen and understand the other person and help in bettering the situation instead of making it worse. Even if we have to sacrifice some things to bless another person we are to do it out of love and with a pure heart.