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Driven Away
Posted on Sunday, September 26th, 2021 | Filed under Blog Post, Culture, Devotional, Honor and Shame, Identity | Tagged: Audrey Frank, displaced people, Ecclesiastes 3:15, Genesis 16, Hagar, haiku, haiku prayer, honor, instead of shame honor, Mission Network News, Prayer for the nations, Prayercast, refugees, shame, The God Who Sees

God seeks what has been driven away. Ecclesiastes 3:15 Hagar was driven away from her home (see Genesis 16). Her name, Hagar, carries the root in both Hebrew and Arabic that means to flee. For Christians, Muslims, and Jews, she has become a symbol of fleeing. Some might call her the mother of refugees. The God Who Seeks Those Driven Away pursued Hagar in the desert. Alone with her child, destitute, she believed death was imminent. How astonished she must have been to hear the voice of the Seeker, seeking her out, speaking wonderful words of hope and a future. Hagar, a bondwoman to God’s chosen family, was given the high privilege of naming God. She was the first person to give Him a new… Read More