I suppose most of my readers have read of Hagar and Ishmael (Gen. 21:12-21), or at least have heard about them in the Sunday school. There are different lessons for us in this case, but there is only one I want to bring before you, and that is in connection with how God watched over them, supplied their needs, and purposed that a ration would come from Ishmael, which i.ere called Ishmaelites.
It is good for us ever to remember that God is in everything, and He. is and will work out His wise purposes, and the end is ever with blessing. You may find many difficulties arise in your circumstances, even when you are quite young, but may you remember how God undertook for these two. There is a verse of Scripture in the New Testament that I want you to learn by heart,
“WE KNOW THAT ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD TO THEM THAT LOVE GOD.” Rom. 8:28.
Why should I ever careful be,
Since such a God is mine?
He watches o’er rue night and day,
And tells me, “Thou art Mine.”
ML 08/23/1942