EL ROI
Posted on Monday, July 28, 2008 by oneP3 | (0) Comments
ElRoi
By: Katie
That’s right…..I am so hard core. I got a Tat! Yup, Inked. I have been praying about it for awhile. I had many who weighed in on it…shocker…My fave is when they quote that the bible says we should not mark up our bodies…… I can only respond with “My name is written in HIS wrist…why can’t His be on mine?” ZAP! I mean that in all humility and seriousness, but it does tend to shut the haters up!!!
I went with El Roi.
It is from the story of Hagar in Genesis 16. Sarai tried to get in the way…or as we women see it…Help God out. God had promised Sarai and Abram a baby…..God was not quick enough for Sarai….so she made the slave girl step in. Hagar gets pregnant and she and Sarai are not getting along, infact it says that Hagar treated Sari badly and then Sarai in turn was hard on Hagar and Hagar runs away. So we have this pregnant slave girl that ran away, she had been used and mistreated. She is sitting by this well and an angel of the Lord speaks to her. Tells her to go back to the abuse and obey and the Lord will bless her. He has some bad news about her kid….but that is another topic! She calls him the “God who sees her” or El Roi.
I get this on so many levels. But the thing that sticks out to me is that she is so touched by the fact that God is so personal…..she does not say …”he is the God who sees people…..” He is the who sees ME. As I have walked through this trial in my life I have been reminded of that so many times. He sees. He knows. He cares.
I love this site I found:
Preceptaustin.org
“God sees and He knows if what has occurred in our lives involves injustices against us. Yes, God is sovereign and in total control and there is nothing that comes into our life that God has not allowed but at the same time He is one who sees all that we have had to deal with. He knows all that we have had to go through in our lives. He knows the times we have been mistreated in our lives. He knows those situations that have involved physical or verbal abuse. He knows that even in all of these afflictions there is the potential to bring Him glory. Remember that because God is sovereign, if what occurred in our lives (or is occurring right now) did not have the potential to conform us to the image of His Son, then He would not have allowed it to occur but He would have intervened. This should give you great peace in the midst of the storm, an inner peace that comes from the fact that He is the God Who sees and that He has not missed
as has been repeatedly emphasized in this study of El Roi, one of the most messages that this name conveys is that there is nowhere we can flee from His presence – He is there. There is a peace that comes from knowing He is there. There is a peace that comes by knowing that He has seen the sins others may have committed against us. It is His responsibility to vindicate us – it is not our responsibility. A genuine understanding of El Roi has the potential of giving you the grace of forgiveness if you are harboring ill will toward someone because of past events.”
Amen and Amen.