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Podcast Introduction Our reading today is Genesis 16-19, and I’m calling the episode “The God Who Sees Me”. We’ll be reading about_what can happen when we decide to help God, Sodom and Gomorrah, and some other very important happenings. We’ll do our “On This Day In Church History” segment, and we have another praise report. Thoughts on Genesis 16 Years earlier, God had promised to Abram that he would have as many descendants as there are stars in the sky. But now, Sarai has begun to doubt God's promise. She does what comes so easily to human beings. She rationalizes. She decides that God must need some help, so she tells Abram to have a child with her servant, Hagar. Of course, Abram, being a great man of faith, says to her, "No Sarai. God knows what He is doing. You are my wife, and it would be wrong of me to do this with Hagar. Let's wait on the Lord." Except that is not what he did, is it? Once again, Abram also doubts God. He too is weary of waiting on God.  So Abram does what Sarai sugg