EL Roi

Our Almighty Praiseworthy Glorious Heavenly Father has supernumerous special names. One special name among those is, “El-Roi.” Which means, “You are the Lord who sees me.” The woman who gave the Lord this name was worthy of His mercy.  She was an Egyptian slave who was chased away by her mistress, her name was Hagar. 

El-Shaddai’s hand embraced this refugee, who was mocked and rejected by everyone. 

It is miserable enough to be a slave. Besides, she was thrown out by her mistress. She was already in the jaws of death, holding her life. On the way to wilderness of Shur, in extremis, when she hears the Words of El-Roi, she revives. She obeys the Almighty God and goes back to Sarah, as He instructed her. World might see her again as a slave, but history says, just like Sarah, Hagar is also a mother of millions and millions. 

Usually, masters name their slaves. Whilst here, a slave names the Ruler of the whole Universe. He accepted the name and has also recorded it joyously in the Bible. Through this name, the Lord of all creations, signifies a message to all the emperors, kings, leaders, officers and masters as a hard blow. 

“I am the Lord of the destitute and oppressed.”

On the walls of the minds of Belshadzzars that nourish themselves by plundering the poor and disconsolate, a hand will write the name that horrifies them to the core, “El-Roi.” (Read Matthew 25) The one who adjudges each and everyone on the Judgement Day, is this Lord of the Oppressed. The one who showed mercy to the poor, shall be given a merciful deem. And the darkness shall ensnare the ruthless ones! Remember, the verse does not say ‘to the least of these’, but “for one of the least of these.”

From Hagar of the Old Testament to Onesimus of the New Testament, He had been compassionate to all the slaves. Hearing the cry of the children of Isaac suffering as slaves in Egypt, a bush inflamed in Horeb! 

“I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt.” Here also comes the savior of the slaves, El-Roi! 

That is all. Pharaoh was entangled by ordeals. A man of God came with a staff (along with ten mortar plagues) to contempt the Egyptian ruler. Moses, the hero of history! The superpower fell apart at the strike of the Almighty God! Even the pyramids must have flabbergasted seeing the magnificent battle by Heaven for the slaves! 

Punition for the wealthy, while Lazarus lies on the lap of Abraham. We know this story, don’t we? What is the moral of this story? Your destiny may change upside down one day. Today, the ones who throw the crumbs from their table to Lazarus, might beg for a drop of water from the hands of the same Lazarus. He sees everything! He is an equitable judge! 

“Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute.” These are the advice of King Lemuel’s mother to him (Pro 31:8,9). She knows the commandments of the Lord. The one who does not speak for the destitute is ineligible to hold the scepter. The ministers who do not care about the suicides of hopeless farmers, who feed the whole nation, is not sitting on the throne, but a ‘useless’ chair! Those heads of the governments are going to lose their diadem sooner. Looting the destitutes for the benefits of the affluents, hearing the wail of the oppressed, El-Roi will come. After He comes to the ground, it is of no use to shout out to the hills and mounts to hide you! None of the ramparts built by the corporations for millions, will protect you then! 

Today, Jews are sceptered in Mercantile and Authority. They might tumble in billions. But here is how God knew them! 

 ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says to Jerusalem: Your ancestry and birth were in the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite. On the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to make you clean, nor were you rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths. No one looked on you with pity or had compassion enough to do any of these things for you. Rather, you were thrown out into the open field, for on the day you were born you were despised.“ ‘Then I passed by and saw you kicking about in your blood, and as you lay there in your blood I said to you, “Live!” (Ezekiel 16:3-6) 

‘Then I passed by and “saw” you kicking about in your blood, and as you lay there in your blood,’ then, this petite fetus caught the merciful sight of El-Roi. That one word, “Live” has been protecting the Jewish seed for epochs, despite the floods and calamities. 

God has never relucted to smite the powerful which oppresses the destitute. 

The judges who gets bribes from the powerful and punishes the lowly, the masters who deceive the wages of workers, Ahabs that steal the properties of poor Naboths using authority, the generous educators that seek profit in education business and does not let the poor study, the doctors who do not treat dying patients without money, pastors who do not even turn to see the impoverished, police officers who mistreat poor people as if they are animals, human ghosts who kidnap wealthless girls and put them into prostituting, officers who does not pay attention to the pillaging of the poor, even after knowing it, likewise, each and everyone who dared to touch the apple of his eyes, are obliged to pay their cost to the Lord! 

Therefore, you kings, be wise; be warned, you rulers of the earth…. Kiss His Son, or He will be angry and your way will lead to your destruction, for His wrath can flare up in a moment. Blessed are all who take refuge in Him. (Psalm 2:10,12) 

The Bible says in a short and sweet manner of the befalling events to such people! 

“Woe to you!”

Without knowing that the furnace is heated up seven times, they had been thinking that God is vain!  Nonetheless… 

Even today, He sees Hagars who wander in the wilderness of Shur! He never averted to help and embrace the destitute. 

He is Jesus Christ! 

He is a never-changing God, He never wards off anyone, He is a comrade, who follows us as our shadows,  He is a feathered friend who protects flying over us, He is a Saviour who gives life to the dead, He is a companion who pursues us even when we forget Him, He is the epitome of mercy and grace! 

“El-Roi!” “You are the Lord who sees me!”