Gen 16: 13
I have now seen the One who sees me.
This was a
statement that Hagar proclaimed when she ran away from her mistress Sarai when
she was badly treated by Sarai. She ran into
the desert to hide but the Lord saw her and spoke with her promising
that He would make a great nation out of the son that she was to bear for
Abraham.
Hagar was
comforted and she obeyed and returned back to her mistress and after that
encounter she made this proclamation that God has seen her and she said; ‘I have
now seen the One who sees me.’
Just as
Hagar was seen by the Lord and also her cry was heard by the Lord, we too are
assured that our God is the same today. His eyes are going to and from watching
out for His children, keeping an eye on them and keeping them safe. His ears
are also inclined to hear the cries for help from His children.
We have many
reports of how God still cares for and protect His children in many instances
where there were dangers like severe accidents happening but the children of
God were totally protected and were not harmed. Other reports are that there
were angels who are at the scene protecting and helping the believers.
Other
examples are when the believers cry out to God to protect them from dangers in
persecuted countries where the anti-Christian authorities were going all out to
arrest and persecute the believers. God had sent His angels to supernaturally
blind the eyes of the government officials who came looking for the believers.
God had made the congregation become invisible to the eyes of the government
officials.
This is the
portion of the believers, just as God had looked after His people in the times past;
He still continues to look after us in this present time.
We also know
that we are soon entering into the tribulation period and many believers would
be challenged to keep their faith even with the threat of losing their lives.
The bible is clear that the Church would have to go through the tribulation and
many would be affected. However, no matter what would happen, we must not turn
away from God and renounce Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior.
Only then
can we be assured of receiving our rewards in heaven. God has prepared a
certain number of martyrs for himself. Rev 6: 9 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those
who had been slain because of the word
of God and the testimony they had maintained.
These are
the tribulation saints who have become martyrs for God. But they are now in
heaven waiting for the rest of the martyrs to join them.
Rev 6: 11 Then each of them was given a white robe,
and they were told to wait a little longer, until the full number of their
fellow servants, their brothers and sisters were killed just as they had been.
This is already
pre-planned by God, we know the end from the beginning and we know where we are
going. So like Hagar we must look to God and obey Him when the time comes.
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