[This reflection by Dennis Ginter was published in the weekly news bulletin of Horley Baptist Church, 04/Feb/2024]
Our home group has discovered an amazing worship song, The God Who Sees by Kathy Lee Gifford. She videoed it – appropriately- in the desert of Israel.
When we listened to it this morning, I found myself deeply moved, realising that all my life I’ve been living as though I’m not being seen. My very early childhood helps explain my avoidance of face-to-face relationships, but only now – as I approach 84 – am I becoming aware of how much I’ve missed!
Expecting to be passed over, I’ve preferred to look the other way whenever God or other people have wanted to know me intimately. Almost all the big mistakes I’ve made in life – and there have been many – have been those of a lonely little boy needing to be seen. Sometimes sabotaging relationships, retreating into himself so as to avoid pain.
If this rings a bell with you, just acknowledge it and let the Holy Spirit do what only he can do! I will do what I can to let myself be seen.
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