God Sees You!

Do you know that God sees you? With 8.2 billion people on this earth, God sees you! That means you, individually, not collectively. But you, personally, with all of your feelings, thoughts and experiences. I know this to be true because of what happened to me.

I once was a young woman without hope. No hope of escaping the pain of my childhood traumas. No hope of feeling normal or living a normal life. No hope of being happy.

Because of those traumas I wasn’t sure what to believe about God. I surmised that either He didn’t exist, or if He did, He had forgotten about me. So I forgot about him.

That is until I surrendered my life to Jesus Christ and became a Christian on Christmas night 1980. After that evening, God began to transform my heart, my life, and everything about me.

In a very short period of time, God healed me of the negative impact of those childhood traumas. I was no longer the walking wounded trying to get by, one day at a time, and trying to escape the darkness that hung over me for years. I was and still am me. But I became a better version of me.

Maybe you’ve had childhood traumas like I did, or multiple negative experiences as an adult where you feel all alone. Maybe you believe that God isn’t real. Or, if He is real, He has forgotten about you. Or maybe you feel your life has no meaning or purpose. You believe there is no hope for your life to change. I know that feeling.

I can assure you, He does see you. He knows. He cares. Jeremiah 1:5 says, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you.” And Isaiah 49:16 says, “I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands.”

God also has a plan and purpose for your life. Jeremiah 29:11 says, “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.”

So, if you think God has forgotten about you, rest assured. He knows you. And He knows what you’re going through. But, it’s up to us to seek Him.

As I lay in bed on Christmas night many years ago wishing I was never born, I thought about becoming a Christian. Having resisted the advice of my friend to do so for months, I asked myself, “What have I got to lose?” And I was right. I lost nothing and gained everything.

So if you’re down and out this Christmas season, feeling hopeless, why not give Jesus a chance? What on earth have you got to lose? Absolutely nothing.