Being overlooked is a particular kind of quiet pain. These verses are for the people no one seems to notice.
// the word for this moment
“And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me?”
Genesis 16:13 (KJV)
“O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.”
Psalm 139:1-3 (KJV)“That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.”
Matthew 6:4 (KJV)Hagar named God El Roi — the God who sees — in one of the most isolated moments in Scripture. She was a servant, a woman, an outsider, alone in a desert, with no social standing and no advocate. And she became the first person in the Bible to name God, because He found her specifically there, in the place where no one else was looking. You are not invisible to the One who counts.