I'm sorry to have not written for so long. This week has been busy, but I will write about all that another time. For now I just want to put some verses that God encouraged me with this week from the story of Hagar and Ishmael. Hagar flees from the presence of her mistress, and an angel of the Lord finds her near a spring of water. God Himself notices her affliction and promises her a son.
Then she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her,
'You are a God who sees';
for she said, 'Have I even remained alive here after seeing Him?'
Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi
(i.e. the well of the living one who sees me)
Genesis 16:13-14
"Seeing the people, He felt compassion for them,
because they were distressed and dispirited
like sheep without a sheperd."
Matt. 9:36
What a God of compassion and lovingkindness we serve! That He would see us- in our brokenness and lost condition, and make a promise of redemption to us. Praise the Lord!
HA HA! What an amazing God we have. His Faithful love keeps showing up everywhere.
ReplyDeleteBelieve it or not I got this very same thought from church this Sunday.
We read Psalm 145 and many people gave testimonies about how God is gracious and full of faithful love toward us.
The thought was that God knows our name; He knows us in every detail not just in passing. And His love is so great that even though He knows us so intimately His reaction was not to cast us off with revulsion; but to purify us, to redeem us, to die for us.
The second part to He knows our name was that He knows us personally. To Him we aren’t just one of the billions of people in the world; or even just one of those people I decided to save. We are each His children and He knows us individually; our dreams and desires, our likes and dislikes. He doesn’t just provide us with ‘bread and water’ but He satisfies our desires for good things.