The Compassion of the Servant Leader

UV 3461/10000 The Compassion of the Servant Leader
Then she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, “You are “God who sees”; for she said, “Have I not even here ( in the wilderness) remained alive after seeing Him ( who sees me with understanding and compassion.”

Genesis 16 v 13

God proves He is impartial, compassionate and kind by hearing the cry of Hagar’s heart and gave her solace in the form of a promise to multiply her descendants. The serpent leader had induced Sarai to persecute her maid Hagar while the Servant Leader looks on all with compassion and kindness. We can cast all our anxiety on Him, at His feet and He will give us deliverance. He will sustain us in our wilderness moments when all have abandoned us.

Jehovah heard Hagar’s sighs and sent a messenger to comfort her and encourage her with hope. When all had abandoned her in this world, hope had not left her. Hagar takes the word from the angel of comfort as evidence that the Lord had not only heard her but had seen her. He would not leave her desolate and destitute. He counsels her to return to Abram’s house- a practical word of advice for she was pregnant and could not roam in the wilderness. Hagar at the time the angel found her near a spring of water was trying to find her way to her native Egypt. The Servant Leader gives us sound and wise advice or counsel at the times of crisis in our lives. Hence, He is called Wonderful Counsellor.

The serpent leader often drives people to desperation, to even think of giving up and taking their lives. A large number of people in the world today end their lives by suicide owing to the spirit of suicide sent to them by the serpent leader. The Servant Leader, in contrast, sustains people who are persecuted, tormented, oppressed with hope, counsel and provision. People at large are unable to distinguish between the voice of the serpent leader and the Servant Leader and get deluded and deceived by the former. Today, the Word of God is our Beer-lahai-roi (where Jehovah encouraged Hagar), the “Well of the Living One who Sees Me.”