3. EL ROI – “God Who sees” – God is omnipresent in His creation. God never sleeps and He sees everything that every person does in their life. both good and evil. The first time we see the Lord referred to as the “God Who Sees” is in Genesis 16:13:
Genesis 16:13 – Then she (Hagar) called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, You-Are-the-God-Who Sees; for she said, “Have I also seen Him who sees me?”
The slave girl Hagar had run into the desert and away from her mistress Sarai and the household of Abram. The Lord Himself appeared to Hagar in the form of an angel. The Lord blessed the child in Hagar’s womb and sent her back to Sarai and was told she must submit to Sarai’s authority. Abram disobeyed God and fathered a child by Hagar because he didn’t trust in the Lord’s promise of a child by his wife Sarai. Abram sinned against God but the Lord turned it into a blessing.
Proverbs 5:21 – For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and He ponders all his paths.
Not only does God see all, God will one day vindicate those against whom evil has been committed. A righteous God will pass judgement on those who do not repent of their sins. In His sovereignty God permits evil to happen but God will use it for good for those who love Him. The Lord does not forsake His own. Our God is trustworthy and He is a strong tower where we can take refuge and rest.
Psalm 9:9-10 – The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble. And those who know Your name will put their trust in You; for You, Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You.
2 Thessalonians 6-8 – Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay with tribulation those who trouble you, and to give you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Witnessing for Christ