THE GOD WHO SEES ME

TITLE: THE GOD WHO SEES ME
ARTIST: THE NAZARENE
STYLE: Children’s biblical wisdom Gospel, tender desert soul, living-water rhythm, harp, kalimba, soft strings, marimba, rainbow chorus, gentle Afrofuturist glow

[INTRO]

Hagar was not the centre of the family story.
But she was seen by God.

In the wilderness.
By the spring.
With tears in her eyes.

She gave God a name:

“You are the God who sees me.”

[VERSE 1]

Hagar came from Egypt, far from home,
servant in a tent where she felt alone.
Abram had promise, Sarai had pain,
waiting got heavy like desert rain.

When people panic, they make hard plans,
try to force God with their own hands.
Hagar got caught in somebody else’s fear,
and the wound of the house came near.

She carried a child and a complicated place,
not fully honoured, not held by grace.
Sarai was wounded, Abram was weak,
and Hagar was pressed where the powerless speak.

Gen Alpha, listen, this story is real,
the Bible does not hide how broken homes feel.
People can use you, blame you, shame you,
but God sees names where systems rename you.

She ran to the desert with dust in her breath,
feeling like silence, fear and death.
But by a spring on the wilderness way,
the angel of the Lord had something to say.

[HOOK]

You are the God who sees me,
when nobody sees my tears.
You are the God who hears me,
in lonely desert years.

El Roi, El Roi,
the Lord who sees my face.
El Roi, El Roi,
You find me in the hidden place.

[VERSE 2]

“Hagar, servant of Sarai,” He called,
not a shadow, not forgotten at all.
“Where have you come from? Where will you go?”
God asked questions that opened the soul.

She told the truth: “I’m running away.”
God met her there in the heat of the day.
He spoke of the child that her body would bear,
Ishmael, because God heard her despair.

That name means God hears, let the children know,
cries are not lost where the sand winds blow.
Before the world gave Hagar respect,
Heaven came close with a holy direct.

She named the Lord by the desert stream,
“You are El Roi, the God who sees me.”
Not seen like gossip, not seen like shame,
seen with mercy by the living Name.

That is the gift for the child pushed out,
for the quiet one swallowed by fear and doubt.
You are not invisible, lost or small,
God sees the sparrow, God sees all.

[CHOIR COUNTER]

God sees the lonely.
God hears the child.
Grace in the desert.
Mercy in the wild.

[HOOK]

You are the God who sees me,
when nobody sees my tears.
You are the God who hears me,
in lonely desert years.

El Roi, El Roi,
the Lord who sees my face.
El Roi, El Roi,
You find me in the hidden place.

[VERSE 3]

Later the desert came again,
water ran out, hope wore thin.
Hagar placed the boy where shade could keep,
then walked away because the grief was deep.

She could not watch her son fade there,
mother-love breaking in burning air.
But God heard the boy, God opened her eyes,
showed her a well beneath desert skies.

Sometimes the well is nearer than we know,
but tears make heavy what eyes can show.
God did not laugh at her fear that day,
He gave them water and made a way.

Gen Alpha, remember when your heart feels dry,
when you cannot explain the reason why,
when home feels hard or friends feel cold,
God sees the story you have not told.

The God who sees is the God who stays,
the God who hears in wilderness days.
He does not need a palace scene,
He meets the broken where they’ve been.

[BRIDGE]

Not everyone is treated fairly.
Not every home is calm.
Not every child feels chosen.
Not every wound has balm.

But God sees lower
than people look.
God writes names
in His living book.

He sees the refugee.
He sees the poor.
He sees the mother
outside the door.

He sees the child
under the tree.
He sees Hagar.
He sees me.

[VERSE 4]

Hagar points us on to Jesus too,
the One who saw what others pushed through.
He saw the woman beside the well,
saw Zacchaeus where the branches fell.

He saw the leper outside the gate,
saw the thief when the hour was late.
Saw the children, blessed their place,
saw the sinner and gave them grace.

At the Cross, He was cast outside,
rejected, wounded, crucified.
The Seen One became the shamed One there,
so unseen hearts could meet God’s care.

He rose with mercy in wounded hands,
Lord of wells in desert lands.
Living water still runs free,
Jesus is the God who sees.

So don’t look down on the pushed-away,
don’t mock the child who has no say.
Be like Jesus, gentle and near,
see with mercy, listen with tears.

[FINAL HOOK]

You are the God who sees me,
when nobody sees my tears.
You are the God who hears me,
in lonely desert years.

El Roi, El Roi,
the Lord who sees my face.
El Roi, El Roi,
You find me in the hidden place.

You are the God who sees us,
in every hidden place.
Jesus, Living Water,
show us wells of grace.

[OUTRO]

Hagar was seen.
Ishmael was heard.
The wilderness was not empty.

God opened her eyes.
God showed her water.
God kept His promise.

El Roi.
The God who sees me.

Jesus sees the children.
Jesus hears the cry.
Jesus gives living water
in the desert.