At this, she bowed down with her face to the ground. She asked him, “why have I found such favor in your eyes that you notice me – a foreigner?” Boaz replied, “I’ve been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband – how you left your father and mother and your homeland and came to live with a people you did not know before.”
Ruth 2:10-11
Do you ever feel like no one sees you? Like truly sees you? Like you are living your life, trying to do what God wants you to do, but no one notices?
Been there, done that, wrote the book.
I don’t know about you, but truly, I’m OK with not being seen. It’s not until someone else takes the credit or worse yet, someone tries to tell me I am one way and in actuality — I’m so different. In these moments, I’m not mad, I’m hurt deeply. All because I not only feel unseen but also unknown. That’s when God sends a reminder to me that he sees me and knows my heart.
Like Ruth being told by Boaz that he’s heard all about what she’s done for Naomi, many times, my husbands that one. He’s that one who reminds me I don’t need to worry about what others think, but what God knows.
This is a hard one friends because here on earth we are judged by others perceptions of us and we face those judgments day in and day out. But maybe, just maybe, that is the cross we are to bear like Jesus bore a cross for us. Once we die on the cross to what others think, we live in the judgment of what only God knows. And you know what? God loves, loved, and will love us forever. So much so, that he gave his one and only son to die on the cross for our sins, Our true sins, not what people think they know. And he sits on the throne in heaven showing us grace and mercy and abundant love.
You are seen. Seen for who you truly are. In the eyes of God you are his child and he loves you so.
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