The Lord turned and looked at Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how He had told him, “Before the rooster crows today, you will deny Me three times.” One look from the Lord was like an edge of a sharp sword.
Luke 22:61
Peter was guilty, heart broken and he wept bitterly. A broken and contrite heart is not despised ( Psalm 51:17 ). This one look changed the trajectory of Peter’s life, we see him as a great apostle.
So when the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses! And he said, “Here I am.” The setting is the burning bush on Mount Horeb and Moses’s curiosity which led to find out why the bush was burning but was not consumed.
Exodus 3:4
The Lord saw and thus from shepherding the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, Moses became the greatest biblical figure, legend and greatest leader, prophet who led out the Israelites from 430 years of slavery. One look changed his life and others lives through him.
John 5:6 When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had already been a long time in that condition, He said to him, “Do you wish to get well?” This is a well-known verse of “a certain man” who was lying at the pool of Bethesda for 38 years, one look and he took up his mat and walked, the whole world must have thought it’s over but that one look from Jesus restored his health.
John 6:5 Therefore Jesus, lifting up His eyes and seeing that a large crowd was coming to Him, said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, so that these may eat?” Jesus while sitting with his disciples up the mountain a great multitude, around 5000 men in number, plus women and children were there. He was concerned about providing them food. The disciples spoke of insufficiency but, the lad’s lunch box turned into a restaurant with exceedingly abundant supply of food in seconds in the hands of Jesus, one look at the multitude, the lack was turned into exceeding abundance and they were all satisfied
Psalm 14:2 The LORD looks down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there are any who understand, who seek God. The Lord is looking down from heaven at us, to see if we understand who He is and seek Him, He the creator of this universe, He the God of impossibilities, He the one who saw us in our mother’s womb and recorded our each day and event, He who disarmed Satan, He who died for us on the cross, He who can call forth the dead back to life.
If we would only understand and wave back at Him and say, “Please look at me Lord, here I am”, our lives and situations will be changed forever!! It’s because He looked at me that I am here right now, typing this message out!! Praise God!!
Prayer
Loving heavenly Father, may Your eyes fall upon us, our lives, our families and situations so that we may be changed forever for Your glory and name’s sake!!
Amen!!
Sol.Lalitha Menon