El Roi, the God who sees me.

Apostle Natasha
Apr 30, 2024
2 min read

Genesis chapter 16 is the story of Sarai’s maiden Hagar whom she had given to Abram as a wife in a pursuit of self-righteously producing God’s promised seed. Which we know was not God’s plan.

After much turmoil between them, Hagar flees to the wilderness where the Angel of the Lord instructs her to go back to her mistress and remain submissive.

Here The Angel of the Lord reassures her that her descendants will be greatly multiplied because she is with child and shall bear a son to be called Ishmael (God hears).

Verse 13 says that Hagar calls the name of the Lord “El Roi” for God has seen her suffering with understanding and compassion!

El Roi is the Hebrew name of God meaning “the God who sees me”. We know God to be omnipresent, being present and ever present everywhere and in all at the same time. Understanding, experiencing, and knowing with full persuasion that our Triune God is El Roi we can have FULL ASSURANCE in all things.

Scripture tells us that El Roi has numbered the very hairs on our heads, He was, is, and is to come, He knew us before our mother’s womb, He has chosen us and called us out of utter darkness and much more.

It also tells us that there is no place that we can go where we can hide from His presence. Let’s pause a moment and apply that principled truth to every circumstance and situation.

If scripture tells us at no point are we out of God’s line of sight we should then begin to walk in the privilege that no matter what is transpiring, God sees.

To reverence God as El Roi you must first apply heaven’s kingdom currency, FAITH! Without faith, we find ourselves unbelieving instead of believing.

When we BELIEVE that El Roi is “seeing” all things we should then consult Him on that which He sees.

The definition of “seeing” is the sense or power of sight; or vision.

Who better to have this power and authority than the one who created it?

We, in our humanity and fallible wisdom, do not see as El Roi sees.

Trusting that God sees brings peace and comfort. Regardless of what you see, He sees! What El Roi sees is not shortsighted as much as the vision of man. He sees with superlative clarity.

Notice in this story, after Hagar realized that God saw her suffering and instructed her to go back to the very place that suffering existed and she went willingly, she did not find it difficult to return to such circumstances. Why? Because to Hagar, knowing that El Roi sees was the reassurance that allowed her to rest in God being God.

Trusting in El Roi as our supreme God eliminates the guesswork of every fly by night situation and circumstance.