The Gospel Throughout ScriptureSample

There is a woman running through the wilderness who was never supposed to be the story, and that is precisely why God chose her to tell it. Hagar—an enslaved Egyptian girl with no tribe, no title, no say in how her body was used or discarded—had been handed over by Sarah like livestock and then thrown out when she became inconvenient. The people of God did that to her. Sit with that for a moment, because the Bible does not flinch from it, and neither should we.

And somewhere in that desert, thirsty and terrified with her son Ishmael beside her and the water running out, Hagar encounters the living God, and she does something no one in the entire history of Scripture had done before her: she gives God a name. El Roi. The God Who Sees. Not Abraham the patriarch, not some priest or prophet—a discarded foreign girl becomes the first human being to name the Almighty, because God has always been in the business of finding the people everyone else has forgotten. The gospel is already breathing here in Genesis, long before Bethlehem, long before Calvary. The same God who knelt beside Hagar at that well would centuries later sit beside another outcast woman at another well in Samaria, and the conversation would carry the same weight: I see you, specifically, in the exact place you did not choose, and I came here on purpose. That is the good news: before it had a name, grace has never once started with the worthy.

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