The God Who Sees Me

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 139:16 (ESV)

When you address God in prayer, which name do you use? 

Throughout Scripture, God is called by various names. Sometimes individuals offer these names out of lived experience with God, while other names God gives Himself. Each name of God describes an aspect of His character. 

A woman named Hagar first used one name to describe God when He met her in her distress. She said,“You are the God who sees me...I have now seen the One who sees me,” (Genesis 16:13). This phrase, “The God Who Sees Me,” is translated “El Roi” in Hebrew. 

El Roi is the God who numbers the hairs on our heads and counts our every tear. He knows every detail of our circumstances. When we pray to El Roi, we are praying to the God who knows everything about us. 

Even the most attentive parent must sleep; but our Heavenly Father never closes His eyes to us. El Roi never misses a detail of what is happening. He sees everything. 

In today’s passage, we read of King David knowing El Roi. The psalmist praises the All-Seeing One. David proclaims God as the Creator who holds unformed substance, the Author who writes out history before time begins.

It is mind-boggling to think of El Roi seeing us in His mind’s eye...imagining just how He will form and fashion every detail of our being. He not only sees us, He sees every one of our days, which are pre-ordained and written in His book. 

Yes, Hagar, He is the God who sees! How could we not trust Him? How much time and energy do we spend seeking to be seen and known, when we already have this need fully met in Jesus? When we trust Christ and our eyes are opened in faith, we clearly see the God who sees us. 

Open your heart and eyes to El Roi so that you may also declare, “I have now seen the One Who sees me.”

Prayer: El Roi, Thank You for seeing me, just as I am, and loving me fully and completely. Thank You for also seeing what I can be in Christ, and transforming me into the image of Your Son. It is such a comfort to know that no matter what has happened, is happening, or will happen, You see it all and walk with me. Help me to trust You more and more each day.In Jesus’ name, amen.