Can You See Me?

Lord, can you see me?

What does it all look like from your point of view — above the land and sea, above the atmosphere and earth, above the cosmos? What do we look like in your sight?

Busy ants? Scurrying mice? Grains of sand?…

Stones littering the seashore — all different shapes, all different sizes, all different colors…

…all being pounded by the same relentless waves of sin, hardship, and sorrow?

Lord, can you see me?

Me — a mere atom in the light of your glorious presence, a tiny stone in comparison to your mighty rock —

What am I but ashes and dust?

“‘…for dust you are and to dust you will return.’” (Genesis 3:19b)

But even though I am little, I am a part of your creation. I have been made. I did not make myself. And though appearing to be nothing more than a stone, I am not made of stone. Blood runs through my veins. My heart beats. This stone is not an inanimate object on the shore: it thinks, it hopes, it feels, it questions, it pleads…

Lord, why have I been made?

This stone wishes to know why it’s here. Why it has been scattered amongst the other stones of the earth. Why it was formed, why it was sent here, what purpose it is meant to achieve.

Sometimes I feel like an extra that can be put aside. A useless piece that can be thrown away. A has-been gathering dust on the shelf. If only I knew now how things were going to turn out…

…the waves make their move to swallow me up again.

Why am I here?

But in that moment, as the waves of doubt rise to engulf me, I am reminded:

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“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.” (Psalm 139:13-14)

You make me remember again. Why do I so quickly forget?

“My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place…All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.” (Psalm 139:15a, 16)

Too often do I allow myself to get drowned in the particulars that I forget the simple truth of who I am.

I am loved. I am eternally connected to the Creator who made me — who molded me, who knows me inside and out — and is making a family of believers, his “living stones” (1 Peter 2:5), who are “created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” (Ephesians 2:10)

I have been picked up…

…and placed upon the Rock.

This stone will be all right.

“‘Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father. And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.’” (Matthew 10:29-31)

Will this stone know everything while it is here? Probably not…

…but there is one thing it does know for certain:

Lord, you see me.

“You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.” (Psalm 139:2-3)