But he was already there. Already moving. Already pursuing broken people long before Bethlehem. Long before the manger. Long before anyone knew his name. Genesis 16 is one of the most overlooked passages in all of scripture.

And when you see who Jesus was pursuing in the Old Testament — and why — everything you thought you knew about when God started coming after you changes completely. Hagar wasn't a prophet. She wasn't a patriarch. She wasn't chosen or celebrated or important in anyone's eyes. She was a slave girl — used, discarded, and running alone in the wilderness with nothing. And Jesus found her there. Not because she earned it. Not because she came looking for him. He went to where she was. He called her by name. He saw her when nobody else would. That's not a New Testament story. That's Genesis. And if that's who he was pur ...