I saw what you did

 When I was a young teenager, my brothers and I scrolled through what was on television one evening, back when there was a selection of only three or four channels.  They decided on a movie that had originally been released in theaters in 1965 about two teenage girls making crank calls, entitled, "I saw what you did, and I know who you are."  I can still remember the fear that lingered in my thoughts afterwards.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I thought about the title of that film a few weeks ago during the memorial service for a dear friend.  One of her sons spoke so lovingly about his mom, her passion as a nurse, her faithfulness as a mom, her faith in God evident no matter where she was.  He watched her respond to the needs around her.  He observed how she loved people.  He saw how her faith was not just something she believed, but lived.

And then he turned to his dad who had loved and served his wife so well during her long battle with cancer and took such good care of her in those last months, always by her side, loving her every which way he could.

The son said those same words, "I saw what you did, Dad.  You lived out your wedding vows from 42 years ago.  For better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part."

But it was far beyond wedding vows he saw in the every days and in the crises.  But who his mom and dad were in Christ.  "It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.  And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me."  Galatians 2. 20

What profoundly impacted this young man was not just what both his mom and dad had said about their faith, but how he saw them live it out, in the ordinary and extraordinary.  It was not just stuff he remembered seeing, not just how they modeled faith, but how they faithfully lived and followed God.  

I saw what you did.

And I know Whose you are.

 

Fear not, for I have redeemed you;

I have called you by name,

               you are Mine.

                       Isaiah 43. 1

Others are continually watching us, not to see if we are perfect, but to see if God is real.  God changes our hearts.  God radically alters our lives. 

Knowing Him.

Known by Him.

Known as His.