Overlooked

Overlooked.
I am loved by the God who sees. I have read Chapter 2 twice, and before my time expires in accessing it freely on NetGalley, I will need to read it again.

I am where I am, as I am, in the plan of God. I do not direct my own steps, any more than Adam and Eve directed their own way. They made foolish decisions; and as a consequence had to leave the garden paradise that was their home. Their relationship with God was radically altered. BUT….

The Lord God provided for them in their present need, clothing them in their nakedness, and promising them provision for their greater need in the future. Indeed, the defeat of the serpent was foretold in the earliest chapters of the historical record.

Please know I love You, Father. Please know I welcome Your seeing eye upon me all my days. I thank You for such grace and mercy, for You are good, and do good to all.

Another reflection:

Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
(Hebrews 4:14,16)

“We reconcile our need to be seen, and our fear of being seen, in Jesus.” (page 31 of Overlooked.)

Without the reality of the gospel of salvation, we will always be open to comparing ourselves with another- sometimes favourably, often unfavourably, depending on the wiring of our individual personalities. Sadly, it’s not only common in the world, but among God’s people, which prompts Paul to write to the Roman church, “not to think of himself (yourselves)more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.” (Romans 12:3)

Jesus Christ has opened up the way for us to God his Father, and taught His disciples the Lord’s prayer, and has taught us what it really means to love God with all our heart in the first sermon he ever preached.
The author to the Hebrews encourages his persecuted brethren to “remember Jesus” in their affliction. Remember what? For one thing, that He was approved by God, and that through resurrection and ascension He has been reunited to the Father, there to be our faithful High Priest.

His intimate knowledge of each one of his children ensures that His prayers are appropriate and practical, and the help that we need in our weakness will be given. We will not be overlooked! We cannot be overlooked!.
However, in those times I feel overwhelmed, confused, lonely and afflicted, and am stabbed with the loneliness of regret and shame, I can remember Jesus.

“What a friend we have in Jesus
All our sins and griefs to bear,
O what a privilege to carry,
Everything to God in prayer..”

I can recognize the times of temptation to worry and be downcast as moments of spiritual warfare. I can pray. I will pray. I determine to pray, and to stand firm in the faith, knowing that painful times will come, when my identity as Your child will be under attack. Mercy and grace is at my disposal from the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.

I am a child of God, beloved by the Father, redeemed by the Son, being molded by the Holy Spirit. I am the object of my Father’s love that knows no limits. I will see myself “through Your eyes”, Heavenly Father. Blessed be Your Name.

( I have posted this as a review. If a book prompts a reader to reflect earnestly on his own life, and draws him to pray and to worship, it is surely a book to strongly recommend.)