Sarai wanted a baby! So did her husband, Abram. When she did not conceive, she gave her maid Hagar to Abram to have a surrogate baby. As soon as the pregnancy was evident, a great wall of envy, jealousy and hatred sprang up between the two women. Sarai drove Hagar from the house.
Genesis 16 describes the scene in the wilderness when a desperate Hagar is discovered by a loving God who comforts her. Hagar is amazed that God has found her! “You are the God who sees me”, she says in Genesis 16:13. It is an early example in the Bible of a person being “surprised by grace.” God cares for us, and He seeks us out. We can’t go far enough in our chosen wilderness to evade His love.
The fact that God sees us individually is not a threatening idea of God as a “super cop” but of the God who lovingly seeks us. Remember the time in Luke 21:2 when Jesus is near the Temple treasury? The Bible relates, “He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins.” No one else noticed her because she was poor and her gift was small, but Jesus saw her and pronounced her gift the most worshipful. Great! God sees us, and that makes all the difference.
One hymn writer tried to capture this truth by writing, “His eye is on the sparrow, so I know He watches me.” Whether we are in a time of testing and trial, or victory or success, it is all the same; we serve the God who sees us.
David is amazed that the people of God do not apply their “God knowledge” in a practical way: “If God created the eye, isn’t it logical to believe that God can see?” (Psalm 94:9) God knows your circumstance and situation. Trust Him to deliver! He sees you!
“What a wonderful truth to discover, God, that you see us and come close
to be our helper. I really needed to hear that today! Amen”
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