El Roi ( Row ee)
God sees me.
How profound just that statement is. God sees me. It doesn't matter where I am , or what I am doing, He sees me. He sees you. Broken, abused, rejected? He sees you and He loves you. How awesome is that? I can't hardly fathom the depth of that statement.
In the Bible there is the story of Abraham and Sarah and how God had promised them a child. Years had passed and Sarah grew inpatient. She saw that time was passing and she was getting past the age of being able to have children. So she had Abraham and lie with her handmade, Hagar with the thought that they could have children through her. But when Hagar became pregnant, Sarah was jealous. It didn't help that Hagar was a bit prideful and probably taunted Sarah that she was able to conceive when Sarah couldn't. So Sarah mistreated Hagar to the point that Hagar could not take any more and she ran away into the desert. This is where God found her. He sent an angel to tell her that he saw her in her misery and he was going to help her. The angel instructed her to go back and be obedient to her mistress and God will bless her. He saw Hagar in all of her misery. She was abused and mistreated and God saw her. When she ran away God saw her. Sometimes we run away from our problems. The housewife running from the daily grind, the housework, laundry and dirty dishes, the husband running from the responsibility of paying bills, lifeless marriage, the kids. Everyone is running from something. But God sees us where we are and he rescues us.
Lesson Learned: God cares and sees us where we are and He will rescue you!
