Saw her

 From Tera's Online Christian Journey

And when the Lord saw her...

And when the Lord saw her...there in her agony, there in her plight, there in her "life is no longer worth living so why continue to fight the good fight"...He had compassion on her.

But ohhh there is SO much more...

So many stories of the She's of the past who can tell you what is was like...when the Lord saw them...and so many She's in our world right now...who can tell you their stories too. May we listen to them.

And when the Lord saw her, her soul felt its worth. She realized she wasn't simply created to be the object of some guy's attention, but instead that she had her own value, her own gifts, her own talents and worth.

And the Lord saw her, she realized she was worthy of being seen, she was worth coming down for, worth crossing over for, worth being heard and believed.

And when the Lord saw her, she realized she was never too far away to be seen, never too far gone or too hidden away or too buried in the rubble of her own guilt and shame.

That's right. Never.

And when the Lord saw her, she saw the Lord seeing her, so she named him "El Roi," the name that would forever remind her that the Lord her God always sees her, no matter what sea she finds herself drowning in or what lonely desert she finds herself wandering in.

Yes.

And when the Lord saw her, he opened her eyes so she could see too. And when the Lord saw her, He listened to her.

And when the Lord saw her, He allowed her to spill both her guts AND her tears, and she watched as He collected each and every one of them into a bottle because they were THAT precious to Him. And as He did, he assured her...these won't be wasted.

And when the Lord saw her, she knew she wasn't alone, she knew that just as God's eye was upon the sparrow, his eye was also on HER...and then the Lord reminded her that she is worth FAR more than the sparrows.

Yes.

And when the Lord saw her, her life changed.

For the better...not for the worse, becoming the richer for her in the midst of her poorer, the health her soul desperately needed in the midst of her sickness...from that day forward...and into forever...for she knew even death itself wouldn't part them.

When the Lord saw her.

(sparked by Luke 7:13)

[My note: just realized this was about Hagar, the mother of Ishmael from the El-Roi reference]

Luke 7:13: And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, "Do not weep."