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El Roi — The God Who Sees

Some pain isn’t loud…it’s quiet.

It’s the kind you carry while still showing up, still serving, still doing what’s expected of you.

You’re not rebelling. You’re not running from God. You’re just… unseen.

That was the story of Hagar. The Lord graciously brought this story back in my heart the last couple of days.

See, Hagar didn’t ask for her “lot”.

Hagar didn’t wake up one day and choose chaos.

She didn’t ask to be part of Abraham and Sarah’s shortcut.

She didn’t ask to carry a promise that wasn’t hers.

She didn’t ask to be elevated one moment and pushed aside the next.

She was a servant…A foreigner

A woman with no power in the situation she was trapped in.

And when she became pregnant, everything shifted.

Sarah felt threatened, and Abraham mostly stayed quiet.

Because of that, Hagar took the weight of everyone else’s dysfunction.

Scripture says she was treated harshly…so she ran.

Not from God but from people. (something I’m sure we all feel like we want to do on occasion)

But, God Finds Her in the Wilderness

This part matters.

God doesn’t meet Hagar in the tent. He doesn’t summon her back with a command. He meets her in the desert, by a spring, where people go when they’re just trying to survive.

And what is the first thing God does? ( so powerful)

HE CALLS HER BY NAME! → “HAGAR!”

Before correction, before instruction, before promise…before EVERYTHING ELSE, God SEES HER!

Let that sit for a moment…

After this encounter, Hagar does something no one else in Scripture does.

She names God based on experience. “GENESIS 16:13 - “YOU ARE THE GOD WHO SEES”.....EL ROI

Not “the God who fixes everything instantly.”

Not “the God who explains Himself.”

But the God who sees.

God saw what led her here. God saw what was done to her. God saw what no one else stepped in to stop.

And somehow, being seen was enough to keep her from breaking.

NOW, SEEN DOESN’T ALWAYS MEAN RESCUED IMMEDIATELY

This is where we need to be honest.

God tells Hagar to RETURN!

That doesn’t mean God approved of how she was treated.

It means God’s promise would carry her where people failed her.

Sometimes being seen by God doesn’t change the situation right away…

But it changes you in the middle of it.

It anchors you, and it steadies you.

It reminds you that your life is not invisible just because it’s inconvenient to others.

As we are working on our 2nd week of fasting and praying, this blog may be for the one:

  • Carrying responsibility you didn’t ask for
  • Getting blamed for tension you didn’t create
  • Feeling used but not valued
  • Faithful, but tired

I have the best news for you! EL ROI SEES YOU!!!!

He sees what was said behind closed doors. He sees what was never acknowledged. He sees the prayers you stopped praying because it felt pointless. And He sees you in the wilderness, not after.

Hagar also names the place:

“The well of the Living One who sees me.”

Wells are where you go back. Wells are where you draw from. Wells are where you remember, God met me here.

Not at your strongest. Not at your best. But right there.

Before you fix anything. Before you prove anything.

Before you carry anything else—

El Roi already sees you, and THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING!!!

(AND THE NEXT PART OF HER STORY IS JUST AS POWERFUL, WE WILL GET TO IT)! GLORY

I JUST WANTED TO REMIND YOU THAT WHEN YOU FEEL UNSEEN, OVERLOOKD, OR DOWN, THERE IS ONE WHO SEE YOU AND IS NAME IS EL ROI,THE GOD YOU SEES......YOU!!!!!!!!!!