When God looks at you, what does He see? Does He like what He sees? God cannot hate, He is love personified, so regardless of the state you are in, He loves you, however He might not be looking at you. In Matt 27:46 we are told that because Jesus bore the sins of the whole world, God, of whom He belonged to, turned His back on Him. We can say that God could not even behold Himself because He can’t stand sin, sin that did not belong to Him… how much more us?!
In the event that God does glance at you, does He immediately remove His eyes or does He make you a resting place for His eyes? Take a look at Noah, in the midst of extreme godlessness, when God made up his mind that because He can do all things, He did not need man to exist. He looked at Noah and liked what He saw.
God’s eyes are constantly roaming throughout the earth to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart are blameless towards Him (2 Chronicles 16:9). Noah did not know what God had planned on doing; he was different because He feared the God of Enoch his great grandfather. Today, some of us worship God only because we know that He will protect, provide for us and guide us. Granted, those are blessings that come with the territory but I dare us to have the attitude that Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego had when they said “we know that our God can save us, but even if He chooses not to save us, we’d rather worship Him than you. Dan 3:16-18” how about Job, he made up his mind that regardless of whatever it is that God allowed him to suffer, he would still trust and fear God. The reason he could do that was because, before the affliction came, His trust and love for God came out of a pure heart. People! The truth is, we can’t deceive God, God knows those who come to Him with a sincere heart (Matt 15:8), in fact, all He requires and what He acknowledges are children who will worship Him sincerely(in spirit and in truth). (John 4:23)When you catch the attention of God, He will take interest in you and change the course for you like He did for Noah. He will begin to reveal things to you and give you instructions on how to survive and excel. Your family will be redeemed because of your love for God; the bible did not say that Noah and his household found favor in the sight of God, but they all entered the ark because God knew that Noah would need company. It also gave room for some animals to be saved, because God figured, since one man and his household will be left on earth to multiply, they’d all need food to eat.
So your single act of sincere worship and honor to the Most High can save countless people.
Numbers 15:10 -13 - NKJV
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: 11 “Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned back My wrath from the children of Israel, because he was zealous with My zeal among them, so that I did not consume the children of Israel in My zeal. 12 Therefore say, ‘Behold, I give to him My covenant of peace; 13 and it shall be to him and his descendants after him a covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was zealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.’”
What happened to the rest of the people who could not hold God’s gaze? They all perished. The time is coming, and is already here, when the only survivors will be the true worshippers. Look around you; we might as well be in the time of Noah, because everyone seems to be sinking except those who have made Jesus their only anchor.
My prayer (for you and I) is that when God looks at us, we will be able to hold His gaze. We will be glaringly different from everything/one around us but Him.
He will help us surrender completely to Him and teach us how to worship Him the way He deserves to be worshipped so that we can be true worshippers; those He seeks that will worship Him in Spirit and Truth. In Jesus Name, Amen
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