This week we take a look at “The God who sees me”, He is the God who cares for us when we think we are forgotten and alone.
In the Book of Genesis, Hagar uses this name for the God who spoke to her through his angel.
In Hebrew, her phrase “El Roi”, literally, “God of Seeing Me”, is translated in the King James Version as “Thou God seest me.”
Abram and Sarai
In verses 9-13 God makes a covenant with Abraham.
He says, “I see you, I will move you to a country I will show you.”
Sarai, who becomes Sarah, is barren, she is unable to have children and God promises that she will have a child, Isaac.
Hagar
Hagar, Sarai’s servant is used as a back-up plan by the couple, but when Hagar has a child, Ishmael, Sarai becomes jealous and bitter and mistreats Hagar.
Hagar runs away into the desert, pregnant with Ishmael.
God meets her by a spring and asks her what she is running away from and where she is going.
He tells her to go back and submit to her mistress, Sarai.
God promises to bless her and Ishmael.
At this point Hagar names God, “You are the God who sees me.”
Hagar was an Egyptian who worshipped idols.
None of them could see her or help her, but God helped her!
Hagar got thrown out, but God saw her and provided for her by providing a well.
He still took care of her.
How reassuring to know that God sees those who feel unseen and insignificant, I have certainly felt this way at times!
God recognizes those who feel or who are unsee in society, the ignored and the shunned.
He sees those who feel invisible and finds us and accepts wherever we are.
If we feel overlooked, know that we aren’t overlooked by God!
He is the one who goes to seek and save those who are lost!
I’m sure we have all felt lost at times, and Jesus meets us in our lostness and puts us on the right path.
Is this not surely how most of us have come to salvation?
I know it was for me, come to the end of the road and wondering where to go next, Jesus offered me a new alternative road, which I chose to follow.
He gave me a new path, full of purpose and I never looked back!
We walk by faith and not by sight.
God gave Hagar hope in a hopeless situation, where she had been thrown out and discarded.
He sees our past, present and future.
He has seen where we have been and what we have been through and plans to bring us into a better future, if we will but take hold of His saving hand, extended to us.
God gave her hope for the future, just as He did me.
He is Our Shepherd and Guides us Into Our Destiny
We have a place in God’s purposes and what an exciting life it is!
Running from God only leads us further into the wilderness and out of God’s will.
Obedience requires submission and that is what it takes to stay on His road for us.
He recognizes those who work good in unseen ways, Jesus particularly commends those who do His work and show His love in unseen ways.
He sees our unseen love and cares for and rewards us.
He has compassion and care for those suffering and in distress.
He sees when we are mistreated and trampled on and hears our cries.
His ear is drawn to those who are hurting.
He heard the cries of His people in Egypt and rescued them, He was not deaf to their cries of distress.
He sees when we are treated unjustly and uses those who are weak to fulfill His purpose.
God uses the weak things of this world to shame that which is strong. (1 Corinthians 1.27)
He is approachable to those who need gentle treatment.
Proverbs 15.3 – The Eyes of the Lord Are Everywhere
He knows who we are as people and sees our inner heart.
Will we trust in what we see, or in the God who sees us and knows every situation before it happens?
We are Safe in His Hands
I lift my eyes up to the mountains. He will not let your foot slip, He who watches over you will not slumber.
God holds us in the palm of His hand, He watches over us and will not let us fall.
We have the assurance that he sees us and watches over us.
God’s goodness outweighs all the troubles that surround us, in Christ, we can overcome.