"Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had not been able to bear children for him. But she had an Egyptian servant named Hagar. So Sarai said to Abram, 'The LORD has prevented me from having children. Go and sleep with my servant. Perhaps I can have children through her.' And Abram agreed with Sarai's proposal. So Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian servant and gave her to Abram as a wife. (This happened ten years after Abram had settled in the land of Canaan.)"
Sarai (and perhaps Abram too) was tired of waiting for God to fulfill his promise, so she took things into her own hands. Abram went along. (Where is his faith now? Perhaps he rationalized that Sarai's plan was how God would fulfill the promise.) At any rate, there's no hint here that either Sarai or Abram sought God for his way of fulfilling the promise, or for his perspective on Sarai's idea. How might you be taking things into your own hands rather than seeking God's way?
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