God Hears Our Cry

June 21, 2026

“God Hears Our Cry"

Scripture: Genesis 21:8-21

In our text this week, Ishmael and Isaac are playing together, when Sarah, tells Abraham, Hagar and Ishmael must go. Imagine how Abraham must of felt. But God tells Abraham to do as Sara has said. So Hagar and Ishmael are sent into the wilderness. When the little bit of rations are gone, Hagar cries out to God, please don’t let me watch my child die. It is then that an angel answers when the boy cries. God promises to provide offers food and water for the child and Hagar. God’s promises to make a great nation from Ishmael. There will be heirs of Abraham, as many as the stars. This is a particularly hard story, we want to make sense of it. How often in our lives so things just not make sense and we struggle? Like Hagar and Ishmael, there are those all around us, who feel cast away, lonely, and forgotten. Life can seem so unfair and hard when tough things happen and we really try to make sense of all that transpires. God hears the cries. God provides even when we don’t understand how everything can possibly work out. Let us ponder the story and place ourselves before God as His plan is greater than anything we anticipate or imagine.