The God Who Sees You

To be forgotten by a parent or by a spouse has got to be one of the greatest pains a person can experience in life. To be ignored. To be betrayed. To watch a father or a mother walk away. To watch a spouse walk away. That person you thought you could entrust your whole life to.

I was a middle child of five. I had attentive loving parents. Being smack dab in the middle, one would think I'd have many memories of being ignored. I don't. But I do recognize in myself a deep need to be loved and to be seen. To matter deeply to someone.

Is that a universal need? I think it is.

I long for God to see me. The one thing that would thrill me the most at the depths of my being is to have God look at me. Smile at me. Delight in me. To hear Him say someday, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant”.

To hear him call me daughter. To hear him say my name.

If you have been betrayed by a person that should have loved you and cherished you, then it's very difficult to believe that God could love you on a deep, individual, personal level. Never forget, though, that our God told us in no uncertain terms that we are precious to Him and He sees everything.

“Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten before God. Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.” (Luke 12:6‭-‬7)

He loves you so much He died for you. And now He invites you to, “Cast all your anxiety on him because He cares for you.” (1 Peter 5:7) We can come boldly to his throne as a beloved child.

Throughout the New Testament, how did Jesus interact with people? John Chapter 9 tells of Jesus healing a blind man. The man was interrogated by the religious officials. They were angry that he was healed on the Sabbath and very unhappy with his answers so they insulted him and threw him out of the synagogue.

But Jesus sought him out, found him, and helped him recognize the truth of who Jesus really was. Jesus saw to it that this man moved from his physical healing and launched him into the eternal journey of knowing Him.

Mark Chapter 5 tells of a woman who had struggled with bleeding for the past twelve years. She was certain that if she could just touch the edge of his garment as he passed by, she would be healed. She didn’t want to bother Him.

“And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse. When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, because she thought, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.” Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering. At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, ‘Who touched my clothes?’

“‘You see the people crowding against you,’ his disciples answered, ‘and yet you can ask, ‘Who touched me?’ ‘

“But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. He said to her, ‘Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.’” (Mark 5:25‭-‬34)

In spite of the fact that Jesus was surrounded by people, and in spite of the fact that he was on his way to do a very important job (heal the daughter of an official), Jesus insisted on “seeing” this woman. He acknowledged her presence. He looked at her. He addressed her as “Daughter”.

The Bible is full of accounts of God paying attention to the least of these; men women and children. When the disciples rebuked people for bringing little children to Jesus, He soundly corrected them. “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.”

Never be in doubt. God not only sees you and hears you, He knows everything about you. He designed you. He cherishes you. He’s constantly present, constantly watching. Always loving you. And delighting in you beyond the delight the best parent (or grandparent) has for his or her little ones. WAY beyond!

“O Lord , you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord , you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.

“Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,” even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you. For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.” (Psalm 139:1‭-‬16)