Reality

  “And she called the name of the Lord that spake unto her, Thou God seest me:” -Genesis 16:13


  Hagar felt so alone. Her life was not going well. She ran away into the wilderness, and as the Bible says so beautifully, “the angel of the Lord found her.” (Genesis 16:7) It goes on to say that God, Himself, had heard her affliction. Now, Hagar knew that she was not alone! God saw her. 



“For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and His ears are attentive to their prayer” 

- 1 Peter 3:12 



  When was the last time you knew that God sees you? I mean, the last time you really felt it in your bones? So many of us in this world want to be seen. We crave attention. We long for someone to care enough to get to know us, on a deeper level. But God does see. God does care. The Bible is not giving us a mythical statement that means something really deep and hard to understand. The actual eyes of the Lord ARE on the righteous. 


  “Oh! But not me! I’m not righteous! God can’t see me!”, some of you say. Don’t be so sure! The Bible mentions God seeing people commit sins repeatedly. There isn’t anything He does not see. Hebrews 4:13 


  Every now and then, I feel like the Lord just drops a little reminder into my life. Just like He’s saying, “Hey, I see you!” A moment that stands out in my memory, is the last time that my siblings and I went on a road trip. I didn’t know where we were. I wasn’t the driver, and hadn’t been paying attention. But suddenly, we were driving past a building that I recognized. A building that was the scene of a turning point in my personal history. A building that I had not seen in ten years.  Now I knew where we were! A flood of bittersweet memories came rushing back, of a time when the Lord closed one door, and redirected my path, but with the memories a quiet knowledge entered my heart: “God remembers too.” 


  My friends, it is time for us to accept reality. The eyes of the Lord are on us. He sees our past, our present, and our future. He is looking at our decisions, our actions, our emotions, and attitudes. He knows everything that happens or doesn’t happen in our lives, and how we feel about it. You and I know this. We’ve known it ever since we became Christians, but so often we don’t truly believe it. 


 Yesterday, my prayer time started just like normal. There wasn’t anything special about it, until I remembered who I’m praying to. There is God, up in Heaven, but close enough to be looking at me. I turned my face up, because somehow I think Heaven is up, and I thought about God, standing right there, looking back at me. He looked right into my heart and knew exactly who I was, and I was happy to have Him do it. It wasn’t my imagination. It was reality. 


  I want to move to a new level of faith. To have a faith that understands that God sees. Hebrews 4:13 says, “Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in His sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.” And that’s okay with me. More than okay! I feel encouraged. What a joy it is, to know that Someone is always seeing me. I am never alone! 

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