Hello, My Name Is El-Roi # 7

Do you ever feel like you live in a big world, and you are so small and insignificant that sometimes you wonder if even God knows you are here?

Sometimes it seems like there are two kinds of people who live here, the SIGNIFICANT and the INSIGNIFICANT!

Illus: For example, when Princess Diana died, all we could see on our televisions and read in our newspapers was about her tragic death. And it was a very tragic death!

But as tragic as her death was, there were 300 people that were gunned down in Algeria almost at the same time, and we did not hear a thing about them in the news media.

The difference in these two tragedies is this, one tragedy happened to a SIGNIFICANT PERSON and the other tragedy happened to the INSIGNIFICANT.

As far as the news media was concerned, these three hundred lives did not add up to the one life of Princess Diana.

In all areas of society, we have the SIGNIFICANT and the INSIGNIFICANT.

Even in the world of journalism they have the “Elite” group of journalists that meet with the President of the United States once a year.

Now all journalists are not invited, only the ELITE!

Illus: For example, 3000 journalists met with the former President, Bill Clinton, at a formal dinner.

At this coat and black-tie event, the President of the United States addressed this group of journalists.

The last year that President Bill Clinton was in office, he told the 3,000 journalists (jokingly) that if they gave $10,000 to his campaign, they would have the privilege of meeting personally with Vice President Al Gore to discuss reinventing government.

Then he said (Jokingly) if they donated $20,000, they did not have to go.

It was a time of laughter, but it was a time again in our society that only the SIGNIFICANT were invited, and the INSIGNIFICANT were overlooked as always.

The point I want to make is this, in all areas of our life we have those who seem to be SIGNIFICANT and those who seem to be INSIGNIFICANT. Even in the world of Journalism.

While mankind places us in these two categories, I am happy to tell you that in the sight of God everyone here is SIGNIFICANT!

• While we know that the Lord Jesus died for ALL mankind, we know that if we were the only sinner on this earth, He would have died for us

• We are so significant to God, that He numbers the hairs on our head

• We are so significant to God, that in Matthew 6:30 we read, “Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you…”

• We are so significant to God, that in Matthew 6:26 we read, “Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?”

One of the things that Satan does to discourage us as Christians, is to make us think that WE ARE NOT SIGNIFICANT IN THE SIGHT OF MEN OR GOD!

But the Lord has done everything that can be done to show us that we are SIGNIFICANT in His sight.

While the Lord lived here on earth, he knew how it felt to be INSIGNIFICANT.

John said of Jesus, in John 1:10, "HE WAS IN THE WORLD, and the world was made by him, AND THE WORLD KNEW HIM NOT."

Just think of that, the greatest individual to ever walk on this earth, and the Bible says mankind “KNEW HIM NOT”.

Illus: Cary Grant once told how he was walking along a street and met a fellow whose eyes locked onto him with excitement.

The man said, "Wait a minute, you're ... you're--I know who you are; don't tell me--uh, Rock Hudson--no, you're ..."

Grant thought he'd help him, so he finished the man's sentence: "Cary Grant." And the fellow said, "No, that's not it! You're ..."

• There was Cary Grant identifying himself with his own name, but the fellow still would not recognize him.

• The Lord told people who He was, and still, they would not believe Him. While mankind may not recognize us with any SIGNIFICANCE, this is not the way God sees us

But we can all be thankful there is a God in heaven who is named El-Roi who SEES US AND KNOWS OUR EVERY NEED.

Remember means "God who Sees me" or the "God of Vision".

Illus: Remember when your teacher would tell you that they had eyes on the back of their heads? Now we know that they never did have eyes on the back of their heads.