For you who feel alone:
He can find you.
“Now the Angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur. And He said, ‘Hagar, Sarai’s maid, where have you come from, and where are you going?'” {Genesis 16:7-8}
For you Hagars: the cast out, the used up, the sin-broken, the sin-sick, the undeserving, the unwanted, the rejected ones, the forgotten ones.
“The Lord has heard your affliction.” {Genesis 16:11}
He cannot resist the broken ones, the searching ones, the lost ones. The unseen ones.
“Then she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, You-Are-the-God-Who-Sees; for she said, ‘Have I also here seen Him who sees me?'” {Genesis 16:13}
He sees you today. He knows you. He foreknew you.
“For You formed my inward parts;
You covered me in my mother’s womb.
I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Marvelous are Your works,
And that my soul knows very well.
My frame was not hidden from You,
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.
And in Your book they all were written,
The days fashioned for me,
When as yet there were none of them.” {Psalm 139:13-16}
You, His marvelous work. His masterpiece. Does your soul know it very well? Present with you from the moment of your conception, your genesis, your beginning. Delighting over you. Singing over you. Knitting you together. Writing out the story of all of your days. Yes, He saw you then. He knew you then.
“Where can I go from Your Spirit?
Or where can I flee from Your presence?” {Psalm 139:7}
And why would I ever want to, God? There is no shame in Your presence. There is only fullness of joy. Because You are the God who sees, the God who saw me before any other, who knew my days and knew all my faltering and failing, and still said “Yes” to me. Still choose me, set me apart. Still said “No” to Jesus {Mark 14:36} so You could say “Yes” to me. To fellowship with me. To unbroken presence with me.
“When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,
What is man that You are mindful of him,
And the son of man that You visit him?” {Psalm 8:3-4}
This sky that takes my breath away, You breathed it into existence.
The star-breathing God, the One who made all this glory.. what is one small man, one small woman, that You are mindful of us? Mindful. Mind full.. of us. Who are You, that You are mindful of me?
This is our God.
This is my God.
I worship You today.
everything He gives 