Hearing the Word of God.

I wanted to share something that God shared with me through His word today.  It was a bit amazing to me to realize what He is saying in these verses.  

Genesis 21:9-20

This is the story of Hagar in the wilderness with Ishmael.  She is about to give up in these pasages.  Who would blame her?  She has been kicked out of her home, is now a single parent, has nothing to provide for her son and doesn't even have water.  She has a lot of problems in her life at this moment.  She puts her child out of her site so she doesn't have to watch him die... Wow!  

She is crying and giving up at this moment. 

And then God sends her an angel.  He tells her that God is on her side.  He is there with her and will take care of her.  And then the Bible says this:

   And God opened her eyes...

So, there is one thing that came to mind.  She closed her eyes.  
This came to my mind first.  She closed her eyes to God.  She was more focused on her problems than in finding an answer to her problems.  She was closed to the fact that there was a well right in front of her because she wasn't trusting God.  

Oh, how we do this.  We get so wrapped up in the actual event of the problem than in the miracle that God is unfolding in our midst's.  God just kind of smacked me over the head with this one.  It reminds me of Peter walking on the water with Jesus and the second he gets his focus off of Jesus and onto the storm around them, he starts to sink.  

This is how I am.  I spend too much time thinking of the problem and not enough time on the One that can take care of that problem.  He is the answer!