What Does God Look At?

“What Does God Look At?” ” … but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.” Isaiah 66:2b There are three classes of individuals mentioned in our text. However, in looking at the verse, the characteristics attributed to the one looked at are very similar and perhaps any one of them would assist in breeding the other two. A poor and contrite-spirited person would be positively affected by God’s Word. I don’t know if poor means poor in a financial sense or in a spiritual sense. In Matthew 5:3, Jesus said, “Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” I believe it speaks of a humility that is coupled with being contrite, which is a deeply humbled person, filled with remorse over something in their past. So, God looks to or at the perfectly poor and the carefully contrite to bless them in one form or another. It is the fear of God and temerity before His Word that tremendously affects God’s eyes pointed in one’s direction. His eyes are filled, not only with tears at times, but also with love and pity. I, for one, am not interested in seeing God’s eyes filled with wrath. The following two verses are not filled with pleasantries and the Lord said, ” … Yea, they have chosen their own ways, … ” vs. 3. And verse 4 is a strong indictment of the evil path many choose to take, ending with this epitaph, ” … they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighteth not. ” He’s watching you … what does He see? – T.G.

Prepared by Roger Fulk, from excerpts from the “Baptist Bread” February 1st, 2022 devotional by author Dr. Tim Green, Revival In Our Time, Day Heights, OH. With permission from Tim Green, editor of Baptist Bread. The Baptist Bread