While Hagar was exiled by Sarai when Hagar was pregnant with Ishmael, she encountered God who promised to bless her. Her response to this experience is found in Gen 16:13: “She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her: ‘You are the God who sees me,’ for she said, ‘I have now seen the One who sees me.’†Think of it. She believed that God saw her even before she saw him! And once they "meet", she calls him by by that name.
A.W. Tozer comments on this verse: “When we lift our inward eyes to gaze upon God we are sure to meet friendly eyes gazing back at us, for it is written that the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout all the earth. The sweet language of experience is "Thou God seest me." When the eyes of the soul looking out meet the eyes of God looking in, heaven has begun right here on this earth†(The Pursuit of God, 86).
The picture I see when thinking about this is merely the whites of two sets of eyes, as if in a dark cave, staring at one another, discovering by surprise that you were not alone, but knowing with just one glance the other set of eyes were those of a friend.
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Close this windowA.W. Tozer comments on this verse: “When we lift our inward eyes to gaze upon God we are sure to meet friendly eyes gazing back at us, for it is written that the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout all the earth. The sweet language of experience is "Thou God seest me." When the eyes of the soul looking out meet the eyes of God looking in, heaven has begun right here on this earth†(The Pursuit of God, 86).
The picture I see when thinking about this is merely the whites of two sets of eyes, as if in a dark cave, staring at one another, discovering by surprise that you were not alone, but knowing with just one glance the other set of eyes were those of a friend.
posted by John at 4:25 PM on Oct 16, 2007