Did you parent ever tell you? Hey you live by faith not by your feelings? I would feel chastised when I would bring up this issue of GOd being so distant? Its one thing to quote Bible verses, it quite another to EXPERIENCE God Jehovah God in your life.. and know that you cant explain it away?
Hagar felt this way.. you remember Hagar, the poor servant girl of Sarah and Abraham. She was hired to serve the family,but through no fault of her own, treated badly by Sarah. Sarah , if you remember the story was childless and unable to bear chldren,. SO Abraham slept with Hagar, Sarah was do distraught with her situation, that she felt compelled to run away.
I wonder how it must felt, Hagar an Egyptian was considered less than a Israelite, a lower class if you will. Out in the Judean desert, stars all around, she looked to God for help. She named her first born Ishmauel, and had an experience with God. I dont know if it was an appearance, a theophany or an angel, all we know.. is that she called that place. "El Roi" meaning the God who sees me.
Wow what a wonderful name. In our study of Gods names, none is more endearing, than El Roi. What a comforting thought.. To some it might be suffocating to think of God is looking over my shoulder, but I look at it differently. The omnipresence of God is everywhere. " the eyes of the Lord are everywhere, beholding the evil and the good" Ps. 120 says that He is a God ' that neither slumbers nor sleeps."
We long for a more intimate experience with God, as the Israelites had,.. and God wants to reveal himself to us. Enjoy this link at the bottom, that furthers expands this theme!
Its not wrong not want to feel God or experience Him. Its what the great men of God wanted this, just read the Psalms!
Jehovah El Roi, He is the God that sees, and has NOT FORGOTTEN YOU!
http://airmiles.wordpress.com/2007/06/18/praying-the-names-of-god-el-roi/
Hagar felt this way.. you remember Hagar, the poor servant girl of Sarah and Abraham. She was hired to serve the family,but through no fault of her own, treated badly by Sarah. Sarah , if you remember the story was childless and unable to bear chldren,. SO Abraham slept with Hagar, Sarah was do distraught with her situation, that she felt compelled to run away.
I wonder how it must felt, Hagar an Egyptian was considered less than a Israelite, a lower class if you will. Out in the Judean desert, stars all around, she looked to God for help. She named her first born Ishmauel, and had an experience with God. I dont know if it was an appearance, a theophany or an angel, all we know.. is that she called that place. "El Roi" meaning the God who sees me.
Wow what a wonderful name. In our study of Gods names, none is more endearing, than El Roi. What a comforting thought.. To some it might be suffocating to think of God is looking over my shoulder, but I look at it differently. The omnipresence of God is everywhere. " the eyes of the Lord are everywhere, beholding the evil and the good" Ps. 120 says that He is a God ' that neither slumbers nor sleeps."
We long for a more intimate experience with God, as the Israelites had,.. and God wants to reveal himself to us. Enjoy this link at the bottom, that furthers expands this theme!
Its not wrong not want to feel God or experience Him. Its what the great men of God wanted this, just read the Psalms!
Jehovah El Roi, He is the God that sees, and has NOT FORGOTTEN YOU!
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