NO SURROGATE FOR FAITH (24)
Scripture: Genesis 16:1-16
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No Surrogate for Faith (24)
Series: Genesis
Robert Dawson
Genesis 16
We are an impatient lot, especially when traveling. We want to arrive at our destination as quickly as possible. We don't want delays or detours and we try to secure every advantage we can. For many drivers that advantage comes in the form of the HOV lane, a lane reserved for vehicles carrying multiple passengers.
To gain that advantage some attempt to cheat the system, which is what one 62-year-old Arizona man tried to do.
He was pulled over by police and cited for trying to fool law-enforcement. His act of deception, riding in the HOV lane with a skeleton, wearing a camouflage hat, tied to the front passenger seat. He was also cited for a window tint violation, tint that was too dark. He was hoping the tint would make it impossible for the police to detect his trickery.
The Arizona Department of Public Safety said that about 7,000 people per year are issued citations for similar HOV violations, including one man driving around with a mannequin wearing a baseball hat and sunglasses. Fines for HOV violations start at $400. (NPR.org, 1-26-20)
Cheating the system comes with consequences, there is a price to be paid. That's a lesson that an impatient Abram and Sarai learn in Genesis 16 as they travel faith's highway on the road to God's promised blessings.
Genesis 16.1-2 - ''Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had not borne him a child, but she had an Egyptian slave woman whose name was Hagar. 2 So Sarai said to Abram, ''See now, the Lord has prevented me from bearing children. Please have relations with my slave woman; perhaps I will obtain children through her.'' And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. 3 And so after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Abram's wife Sarai took Hagar the Egyptian, her slave woman, and gave her to her husband Abram as his wife. 4 Then he had relations with Hagar, and she conceived; and when Hagar became aware that she had conceived, her mis ...
Series: Genesis
Robert Dawson
Genesis 16
We are an impatient lot, especially when traveling. We want to arrive at our destination as quickly as possible. We don't want delays or detours and we try to secure every advantage we can. For many drivers that advantage comes in the form of the HOV lane, a lane reserved for vehicles carrying multiple passengers.
To gain that advantage some attempt to cheat the system, which is what one 62-year-old Arizona man tried to do.
He was pulled over by police and cited for trying to fool law-enforcement. His act of deception, riding in the HOV lane with a skeleton, wearing a camouflage hat, tied to the front passenger seat. He was also cited for a window tint violation, tint that was too dark. He was hoping the tint would make it impossible for the police to detect his trickery.
The Arizona Department of Public Safety said that about 7,000 people per year are issued citations for similar HOV violations, including one man driving around with a mannequin wearing a baseball hat and sunglasses. Fines for HOV violations start at $400. (NPR.org, 1-26-20)
Cheating the system comes with consequences, there is a price to be paid. That's a lesson that an impatient Abram and Sarai learn in Genesis 16 as they travel faith's highway on the road to God's promised blessings.
Genesis 16.1-2 - ''Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had not borne him a child, but she had an Egyptian slave woman whose name was Hagar. 2 So Sarai said to Abram, ''See now, the Lord has prevented me from bearing children. Please have relations with my slave woman; perhaps I will obtain children through her.'' And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. 3 And so after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Abram's wife Sarai took Hagar the Egyptian, her slave woman, and gave her to her husband Abram as his wife. 4 Then he had relations with Hagar, and she conceived; and when Hagar became aware that she had conceived, her mis ...
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