Good morning, everyone, and welcome back to another morning with the masters where we devote ourselves to the Lord daily with you. Good morning, you guys were late putting your headphones on anyways.

What do I say now? What do I say now? We're in the drive Bible today, everyone. So without further ado, tour is going to take from here. Oh, goodness gracious. Okay, you guys today's devotional is titled scene by God. And we're reading out of Genesis 16, 13. And it says this there after Hagar used another name to refer to the Lord who had spoken to her. She said, you are the God who sees me.

The love letter from God says, beloved child, my eye is always on you. And I love what I see. Nothing you do for my glory will ever go unnoticed. I know there are times you feel invisible as if no one sees the ways that you love and serve others.

Even in those uncertain times, I am there. I saw the faithful acts of all my children who have gone before you. I saw David when he was just a shepherd, and I raised him up to be a mighty king. I am the God who sees your true heart. You are my child. And a day is coming when you will be greatly rewarded.

The reward I have for you can't be found in other people's praise. The best is yet to come. My love. So until that great day, I want you to live for an audience of one me. Love your heavenly father. The reflection says every one of us has had times when we feel invisible and unimportant.

However, those are the times when we have the opportunity to see God because we're not looking to anyone else for approval. The next time you feel invisible, ask your heavenly father to make himself known to you in a special way. He is the God who sees you.

The treasure of truth says God sees everything perfectly and will help you see his will for your life.

Yes, this is so good. I remember I was talking to a friend one time, and we were just talking about scripture, talking about God, just, you know, just hashing things out. And one time he asked me, he's like, what is the one thing that God did not give us? And I was like, I don't know. And he was like his glory.

Because his glory is his glory. It's not for us. And he says that sometimes we as humans, actually more often and not we as humans, we desire glory. We desire to be accepted, to be affirmed, to be recognized.

And that's such a slippery slope because the second that we offer ourselves open to, you can call it the audience or the panic hour or you can call it peers, you can call it online, you can call whatever you want.

And the second that we make ourselves available to people's either compliments or criticism, our identity is just going to go through this back and forth wave motion. It's honestly not fun at all. And it's not good for us because in the end, glory will end up making us sick.

It's even mentioned in Isaiah chapter 14 verse 14, this is Isaiah talking about Satan and Satan said, I will ascend above the tops of the clouds. I will make myself like the most high.

And that's dangerous. And that's where if we start seeking glory or affirmation. And a lot of us don't understand that that's what we're seeking. Sometimes we just want to be affirmed. Sometimes we're feeling low. And we run to friends and community for support.

And I'm not saying that's a bad thing. But what happens when we go to a community that's like Job's friends and they actually give us bad advice, bad affirmation, etc.

So our identity and our self worth should always be found in Christ and what he did not what we're doing to receive, you know, compliments or complaints from other people.

Right. We were built to give glory, not receive and take it for ourselves. I actually remember the sermon where our pastor in LA was talking about how when Satan wanted that glory, it really does make you sick. Right. Like we weren't built for it. Our bodies weren't built for the glory. And I think that's why you see so many celebrities, like their marriages failing and all of these people who get what they think they want.

They get the glory. They get the fame. But then it seems like their life actually crumbles. Right. We need to look at that for what it is and not esteem the things of the world more than the things of heaven.

And I love what this devotional is saying that we should live for an audience of one because it's so countercultural to everything we do.

I mean, even chat and I it's like we have a podcast and an Instagram and YouTube and a lot of our life is somewhat public, but we have to make sure that no matter what we're doing, whether we're at home or we are on these platforms, the audience that we are trying to please the audience, we are trying to serve first and foremost is always the Lord.

But I also want to pull it back to those people who are feeling unseen, the people who are feeling like no one really understands them, no one gets their heart knowing that God sees you is such a powerful truth.

Like those intimate moments with the father, I remember just having moments where God would wake me up in the middle of the night and I would be praying and it's the coolest thing because I really felt like I was like going to battle for people in prayer.

And I'm like the only people who know I'm awake right now are God in the devil. And guess who's winning right now? God is winning because he sees that, right?

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