Written by Ken Boa, a contemporary author and founder of Reflections Ministry.
If you are walking down a crowded sidewalk in midtown Manhattan on your way to a lunch appointment, “being seen” has relatively little value. Why? Because you don’t feel lost. If New York City is your home, you have friends there, and you are (or at least feel) secure in that environment. But if your situation in life changes—perhaps you are adrift on a disabled boat a few miles offshore in the Pacific Ocean—“being seen” may become your highest value in life. You wave frantically at every blip on the horizon or in the heavens, hoping to catch someone’s eye. Once you have caught the attention of a search plane or a passing vessel and you see it turning back in your direction, you know you are safe because you have been seen. Being seen by someone with the power to save you is the same as being saved—you know it’s only a matter of time… Perhaps you have felt emotionally shipwrecked, or lost and abandoned in a wilderness of circumstances, feelings, or conflicts. Don’t despair in those situations… God sees you. Nothing—and no one—escapes His attention. To be seen is to be found, and to be found is to be safe. God’s promise: No matter how alone you feel, you are never out of His sight.
So she [Hagar] 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.” [Genesis 16:13]
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