Genesis 16:5 And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the Lord judge between me and thee.
Forced to listen to the complaints of both, Abraham vainly endeavored to restore harmony. Though it was at Sarah's earnest entreaty that he had married Hagar, she now reproached him as the one at fault. She desired to banish her rival but Abraham refused to permit this; for Hagar was to be the mother of his child as he fondly hoped the son of promise.
Hagar's haughty spirit would not brook the harshness which her insolence had provoked. “When Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face.” This leads us to another instance in the scriptures in which desperation drove some wives to do similarly strange things. As Rachel wrestled with the fact that she couldn’t have children, she became increasingly frustrated, and she vented her exasperation with an unreasonable request that caused Jacob to question the viability of her petition.
Then as time went by, without any light at the end of the tunnel, Rachel became desperate to the point of suggesting that which she would otherwise have recoiled from. It is usually at such a breaking point, when devils would suggest things that would set in motion a chain of negative circumstances, which in themselves could become a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy.
Genesis 30:1 And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
May God add His blessing to the study of His word. “Good night” and God bless!