God’s conversation with Abram’s servant Hagar may have been a Christophany, an Old Testament appearance of Jesus.
Genesis 16:7 (NIV)
The angel of the Lord found Hagar near a spring in the desert.
The angel of the Lord, meaning messenger of the God of Israel, stopped Hagar as she was running away from home.
Genesis 16:13
She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “I have now seen the One who sees me.”
Ponder this: the first person to lay eyes on Jesus may have been a runaway Egyptian slave — long before Israel was a nation.
Good morning, Lord. You see me and care for me — all the time. Thank You. I see You in the beauty of creation, I see You in the words of Scripture, I see Your image in the people I know and love (and sometimes in those I don’t). And some future day, I will see You face-to-face!
