El Roi.
The God who sees me.
This is a true story from God's Word.
Abram had just been promised the world. Literally. God knew his fears and doubts concerning the future, and He came to Abram in the midst of them. He met and reassured him and gave him a divine promise, an everlasting covenant. Abram was old and childless, but God told him that he would be the father of a great nation. God took him outside and said, "Look up, look at the stars, number them if you can. So shall your descendants be." And Abram believed God, and his faith was counted as righteousness.
Yet his wife grew restless in the waiting for this promise to be fulfilled, for a child to finally be placed in her arms. So she took matters into her own hands. She had a servant named Hagar, and promptly formed a plan.
She approached her husband and denied the Lord's hand in accomplishing His promise, by saying, "The Lord has prevented me from bearing children. Therefore, go to my servant Hagar, that I might obtain children by her." And Abram took those words to heart, and Sarai gave Hagar to him as his wife. Soon enough, Hagar was with child.
Hagar looked on Sarai with contempt, for she no longer saw her as an honorable mistress. And Sarai became angry and tried to pass the blame onto Abram. But Abram told Sarai to do with Hagar as she pleased, so she treated her harshly because she was with child and Sarai was not. Hagar only saw one way out, so she ran away.
And as she stopped for a drink of water in the desert, she was met by an angel of the Lord. He questioned her, "Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?" She explained that she was fleeing her mistress. And the angel told her to return to Sarai and submit to her. Before she could stammer out the list of reasons she simply could not return, he gave her a promise, that her offspring would be multiplied, so much so that no one would be able to number them all. "Behold," he continued, "you will bear a son and shall call his name Ishmael, because the Lord has listened to your affliction. Your son will be wild and independent, ruling over all his family. He will not be a servant, but a leader."
She couldn't contain her joy, for she knew Who was truly speaking to her through this messenger. She cried out, "You are the God who sees me! Truly here I have seen Him who looks after me!"
This is a true story from God's Word.
You have not gone unnoticed. He hears. He sees. He looks after you.
"This God--His way is perfect;
The Word of the Lord proves true;
He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him."
2 Samuel 22:31
This is a true story from God's Word.
Abram had just been promised the world. Literally. God knew his fears and doubts concerning the future, and He came to Abram in the midst of them. He met and reassured him and gave him a divine promise, an everlasting covenant. Abram was old and childless, but God told him that he would be the father of a great nation. God took him outside and said, "Look up, look at the stars, number them if you can. So shall your descendants be." And Abram believed God, and his faith was counted as righteousness.
Yet his wife grew restless in the waiting for this promise to be fulfilled, for a child to finally be placed in her arms. So she took matters into her own hands. She had a servant named Hagar, and promptly formed a plan.
She approached her husband and denied the Lord's hand in accomplishing His promise, by saying, "The Lord has prevented me from bearing children. Therefore, go to my servant Hagar, that I might obtain children by her." And Abram took those words to heart, and Sarai gave Hagar to him as his wife. Soon enough, Hagar was with child.
Hagar looked on Sarai with contempt, for she no longer saw her as an honorable mistress. And Sarai became angry and tried to pass the blame onto Abram. But Abram told Sarai to do with Hagar as she pleased, so she treated her harshly because she was with child and Sarai was not. Hagar only saw one way out, so she ran away.
And as she stopped for a drink of water in the desert, she was met by an angel of the Lord. He questioned her, "Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?" She explained that she was fleeing her mistress. And the angel told her to return to Sarai and submit to her. Before she could stammer out the list of reasons she simply could not return, he gave her a promise, that her offspring would be multiplied, so much so that no one would be able to number them all. "Behold," he continued, "you will bear a son and shall call his name Ishmael, because the Lord has listened to your affliction. Your son will be wild and independent, ruling over all his family. He will not be a servant, but a leader."
She couldn't contain her joy, for she knew Who was truly speaking to her through this messenger. She cried out, "You are the God who sees me! Truly here I have seen Him who looks after me!"
This is a true story from God's Word.
You have not gone unnoticed. He hears. He sees. He looks after you.
"This God--His way is perfect;
The Word of the Lord proves true;
He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him."
2 Samuel 22:31
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