God Sees You

 

In the movie Avatar there is a phrase that is repeated several times throughout the movie. The phrase is, “I see you.”

 

That is such an important concept. We as humans need to be seen and heard. When we don’t feel that we are being seen and heard we feel we are unimportant, we feel like we are not appreciated and thus not valued. It many times causes people to react with anger.

 

God, since He is our Creator, knows this about us as humans.

 

1 Chronicles 28:9

“And Solomon, my son, learn to know the God of your ancestors intimately. Worship and serve Him with your whole heart and with a willing mind. For the Lord sees every heart and knows every plan and thought. If you seek Him, you will find Him. But if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.”

 

God knows us completely and He sees us.

 

Job 34:21

“For God watches how people live, He sees everything they do.”

 

God watches us, He sees us and everything we do.

 

God sees us, He knows us intimately, and He knows everything we do.

 

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is recognizing that God is all knowing and He knows us and sees everything that is a part of our lives.

 

In God knowing us and seeing everything we do, what is His response to us?

 

Jeremiah 31:3

“The Lord appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore, I have continued My faithfulness to you.”

 

God’s response to us, knowing everything about us, is, “I love you with a love that will never go away or even fade.” God loves us to the max all the time, all the time knowing us completely.

 

God sees us and loves us.

 

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is knowing that God knows me and knowing that He still loves me.

 

We see how that works in real life in Genesis 16 in the life of Hagar.

 

Hagar was the servant of Sarai. Sarai comes up with the brilliant idea that Abraham could father a child through Hagar and that would fulfill God’s promise of Abraham having a male heir. Abraham agrees and Hagar becomes pregnant.

 

Genesis 16:7-14

The angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur. And he said, “Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?” She said, “I am fleeing from my mistress Sarai.” The angel of the Lord said to her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her.” The angel of the Lord also said to her, “I will surely multiply your offspring so that they cannot be numbered for multitude.” And the angel of the Lord said to her, “Behold, you are pregnant and shall bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because the Lord has listened to your affliction. He shall be a wild donkey of a man, his hand against everyone and everyone’s hand against him, and he shall dwell over against all his kinsmen.” So she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, “You are a God of seeing,” for she said, “Truly here I have seen him who looks after me.” Therefore the well was called Ber-lahai-roi; it lies between Kadesh and Bered.

 

Here is Hagar in the middle of the desert. She is alone and isolated and she has no place to go. God speaks to her and tells her that He knows her and He knows her condition. Hagar is not a believer. But God still knows her and lets her know that He has got her and will provide for her.

 

Hagar experiences the presence of God and says that He is the God who sees and she names the well The Well of the Living One Who Sees Me.

 

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is knowing that God sees us and, in seeing us, God will provide for us.

 

We live in a nation where most of us don’t feel that we are being heard. We don’t believe that anyone sees us.

 

I want to challenge us as the church to see people. Jesus didn’t react to people’s sin by condemning them and rejecting them. He reached out to all people. He let people know that He came for the lost, the sinner, and the unrighteous. He showed them that He saw them. Let us be like Jesus and not label people and reject them, but really see them and reach out to them so they can see Jesus.

 

Remember God sees you and loves you.

 

Seeing People with Jesus and Raising the Roof and Removing the Walls,

                                                  Joe