Who is "the word of the Lord" and "the angel of the Lord"? In many instances in Scripture these two phrases are synonymous for the Son of God, the pre-incarnate Jesus.

When Sarai offered Hagar to Abraham, so that she and Abraham could have a child, she was doing what was culturally acceptable but it was morally wrong. How often do we as Christians do and say things that are acceptable by the world, but wrong by God's standards?

Again Abram didn't trust God or wait patiently on Him. And look what happened. If Abram had trusted God to take care of him during the famine and had not gone to Egypt, there would have been no Hagar.

If only we would obey God completely and trust Him completely and wait patiently on Him, life would be so much easier, wouldn't it???