And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.
Sweet subject, spiritually considered. Is not the whole world a wilderness state? But yet, the greatest distresses will not open our eyes to discover Our relief; until the Holy Ghost performs this mercy, and directs to the Lord Jesus. And although, like the well to Hagar, he is always near us in the everlasting covenant of grace, yet we shall see him not, unless He, whose office it is, takes of the things of Jesus to shew them unto us. John 16:15.