GENESIS 16

At the beginning of today's blog, I just need to say that things always go badly when we try to fulfill God’s promises for Him! I think this might be why God doesn’t fill me in on anything that’s happening in my life until it happens...because He knows that if I knew about anything ahead of time, my inner Abraham would probably rise up in me, and I’d try to make God's promises come to pass instead of just letting Him do His thing in His time.

But, instead of focusing on that point from Genesis 16 in this post, I wanted to focus in on this: God sees you.

God sees you.

God sees you.

God sees you.

You may think you’re just a lone and lonely soul, lost in a sea of billions of people on this planet. But you’re not lost. God sees you. You can never escape His notice.

The story of Hagar is such a marvelous example of this! For all intents and purposes, in her time and culture, Hagar was a nobody. First of all, at that time, women were nobodies, period. Second, she was a woman slave, "owned" by another, not in charge of her own destiny.

In fact, as a slave woman, she wouldn’t even be able to keep her own baby. You see, Sarai didn’t concoct this little scheme because she wanted Abram to have a child. No, Sarai wanted to have a child. That’s why she said to Abram, "The Lord has not given me any children. Sleep with my slave, and if she has a child, it will be mine." (vs 2) Hagar’s womb was simply the vehicle Sarai was going to use to get God’s work done. Mercy.

Sarai uses Hagar. Abram uses Hagar. And then Sarai begins to abuse Hagar. In the eyes of the world at the time, Hagar was a nobody. But she wasn’t a nobody to God. After Hagar ran away from home, God came and met her in the desert. And after that encounter, Hagar called Him "the God who sees me."

We have a God who sees us. When the world says we’re slaves, God says we’re free. When the world says we’re worth nothing, God says we’re priceless. And when the world curses us, God blesses us.

God sees you, right now, this very moment, no matter where you are, no matter who you are. He is the God who sees you, knows you, and loves you.