When we run ahead of God | Genesis 16:1-16
Instead of running ahead of God’s plan during affliction we should respond by patiently trusting in the Lord because He hears the afflicted, He sees them in their need, and will fulfill His promises.
Those who run ahead of God and seek to accomplish God’s plans by their own means only complicate their lives (vv. 1-6)
The struggle of waiting on God (vv. 1-2a)
The solution that left God out (vv. 2b-3)
The miserable success of self-made solutions (vv. 4-6)
Since God hears, sees and promises, believers can wait and obey (vv. 7-16)
- God hears (v. 11)
- God sees (v. 13)
- God promises (vv. 10, 12)
- God commands (v. 9)