“And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer–sheba.”
Early the next morning Abraham takes some food and a skin of water, gives them to Hagar with the boy, and sends her away. She goes off and wanders in the Desert of Beersheba. The provision Abraham gives is meager — food and a skin of water for a wilderness journey. The inadequacy of the human provision creates the space where God's provision becomes necessary and visible. The application: the combination of covenant obedience and insufficient human provision is often where God's supply becomes most evident.
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