Tucked away in the crazy story about how God gave two really old people a son that He’d promised is the tragic story of how those old people mistreated a servant whose name meant runner.
Oddly enough, we meet her while she is having a conversation with God while doing the very thing she was named for. She’s fled from her boss, and is now on the run in the desert.
Spoiler alert: by the end of the story, this woman will become the only person in the Bible to give God a name, and while that’s the part of the story that we often talk about, I’m drawn to something different today.
Where have you been? Where are you going? Basically, the Lord looked at a runner, and asked her why she’s still running?, and she had a good reason to run: she was being mistreated. All of this brings me to the part that captivated me as I read it this morning: Continue reading
