Coutinued form part one …………..
“But the water was spent; and having lost their way, in that hot climate Ishmael was soon overcome with fatigue and thirst.
God’s readiness to help us when we are in trouble, must not slacken, but quicken our endeavours to help ourselves.
The promise concerning her son is repeated, as a reason why Hagar should bestir herself to help him. It should engage our care and pains about children and young people, to consider that we know not what great use God has designed them for, and may make of them.
The angel directs her to a present supply. Many who have reason to be comforted, go mourning from day to day, because they do not see the reason they have for comfort.
There is a well of water near them in the covenant of grace, but they are not aware of it, till the same God that opened their eyes to see their wound, opens them to see their remedy.
Paran was a wild place, fit for a wild man; such as Ishmael.
Those who are born after the flesh, take up with the wilderness of this world, while the children of the promise aim at the heavenly Canaan, and cannot be at rest till they are there. Yet God was with the lad; his outward welfare was owing to this.”#
# Taken From Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary.
