He Sees

 

Yesterday, we talked about the great El Roi, the God who sees me.  In fact, this is what Hagar said to this Messenger of the Lord:  So she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, “You are a God of seeing,” for she said, “Truly here I have seen him who looks after me.” (Genesis 16:13, ESV) 

You are a God of seeing.  Read Psalm 139 (http://www.esvbible.org/Psalm+139/) and see that it is truly true.  God sees us, really sees us.  Remember the woman at the well?  How truly Jesus saw her.  He knew her story and sensed her pain and listened to her and answered her questions.   

I have seen him who looks after me.  What a comforting thought.  He looks after me.  He comforts, corrects, feeds, trains, cares for me.  He wants me to answer the hard questions of where I have come from, and where I am going.  He wants me to understand that He is all I need.  

Whom have I in heaven but you?

    And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.

    My flesh and my heart may fail,

    but God is the strength1 of my heart and my portion forever. (Psalm 73:25-26, ESV)

   Hagar must have felt that after her encounter with the Seeing God.   He gave her all she needed, the strength to go back and submit to the one who had mistreated her.  

  

I want you to remember this:

God sees you.  You are never out of His sight.  He sees your pain, and your wayward heart, and your running.  And He loves you.  

Where have you come from?

Where are you going? 

God sees.  You are never invisible to Him.