IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER AND OF THE SON AND OF THE HOLY SPIRITHERE I AM AGAIN TO SHARE “THE TRUTH OF GOD LOVE”Dear friends,For the Love of a SonTerah was Abraham's father and Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot, but Haran died before they left Ur of Chaldees. Abram brought his wife Sara to Haran, where Terah died at the age of two hundred and five years. Sara was barren and had no child. Abram was 75 years old when they left Haran for Canaan, and even then God promised Abram that he would be the father of a great nation. Every where that Abraham traveled, he built an altar on the way, and left it behind as he passed through. There was a famine in the land, and they had to go to Egypt, where the Pharaoh noticed the beauty of Sara, and he wanted her for his wife, because Abram had said that she was his sister. That was only a partial truth. Lot and Abram later separated, Lot went to Sodom, and Abram settled on the plains of Mamre, near Hebron, and he built yet another altar to the LORD. After Abram separated from Lot, GOD again made his promise to Abram, "And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. It is believed that Hagar was given to Sara as a handmaiden while they were in Egypt during the famine, and that Hagar came back with them to the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron. But the years went by, and Abraham and Sarah had no children, and Abraham began to wonder about God's great promise, and if he had misunderstood somehow. It was actually Sarah that suggested that Abraham take Hagar, the Egyptian handmaid of Sarah, for a secondary wife, so that he might produce an heir. Abraham and Sarah got tired of waiting, so they came up with their own plan for a child. GOD was testing the faith of Abraham and Sarah, and they fell short, because they leaned toward their understanding of things, and they failed to endure their trial. Sarah was so sure that she was long past the age of child bearing, and she seemed to forget that GOD is all powerful and able to do that which HE says. Polygamy had become so widespread that it had ceased to be regarded as a sin, but it was no less in violation of the law of GOD, and it is fatal to the sacredness and the peace of family relations.There was a time when Abram again complained to GOD about being childless still, and he asked GOD if his servant, Eliezer, was to be his heir, and GOD assured Abram that he would produce his own natural child. It was after ten years in the land of Canaan that Sara gave her handmaiden, Hagar, to be his wife, and he was now 85 years old, and he was 86 years old when Ishmael was born.Hagar was flattered with her new position as Abraham's wife, and she was the mother of his first son, Ishmael, and she was hoping to be the mother of a great nation that should descend from Abraham, and she became proud and boastful and treated her mistress, Sarah, with contempt. Mutual jealousies disturbed the once happy home, and he was forced to listen to the complaints of both, and he vainly tried to restore harmony. Even though it was at Sarah's earnest entreaty that Abraham had married Hagar, she now reproached him as the one at fault. Sarah told Abraham that when Hagar had seen that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes, and so Sarah dealt harshly with her, and Hagar fled from the home.An angel of the LORD found Hagar by a fountain of water and told her to return to her mistress, Sarah, and to submit herself into her hands, and she did so. The angel of the LORD said unto Hagar, "Behold thou art with child, and thou shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael, because the LORD has heard thy affliction." "And he will be a wild man, and every man's hand against him, and he shall dwell in the presence of all of his brethren." Genesis 16 And Hagar bare Abram a son, and Abram called his son's name, Ishmael. When the "angel" disappeared, Hagar, "called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou GOD seest me" (verse 13). It appears Hagar recognized that the "angel" who had spoken to her was really GOD. Genesis 17:9 And GOD said unto Abraham, Thou shall keep MY covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations. 10 This is MY covenant, which ye shall keep, between ME and you and they seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised. 11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt ME and you. 12 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man in his generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with any money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed. GOD knew then, just as he knows now that it does not take man long to forget him and his teachings and to go his own way, so GOD gave to Abraham a sign not so easily forgotten, the sign of circumcision. GOD never changes and HIS WORDS are forever. Heaven and earth may pass away, but his words will not fail.MAY GOD BLESS ALL AMENFROM WATT