In a selfie world where people see life through our individualistic vantage point, Jesus loves people with a zoom lens. He sees them. There’s someone in your life right now who needs to be seen by you.

I don’t know who it is. I don’t know if you know who it is. This might be a prayer, “God, who do you want me to see? What’s the one person you want to make sure isn’t forgotten?”

There’s a lot of power when someone knows they’ve been seen. Devin Rodriguez is the name of a person on Tik Tok who has a lot of videos. And he has videos of him drawing pictures of strangers while he sits on the subway in New York. Then he gives the picture to the person he was drawing. Nobody knew that he was drawing them. He does it nonchalantly, and it gives him the picture that he wants to see.

Why the emotional reaction?

I mean, she knows what she looks like, so you can take a selfie with her camera? Why does she act that way? It’s interesting. For a while, he did this without telling anyone. His favorite way to do this was to draw or paint pictures of people on the subway. Then he would collect the pictures (serial killer style.) But that was his art, drawing these strangers and capturing a person in this honest moment. It didn’t catch on. It didn’t go viral at all. Then one day, he gives it to the person. And that gets like 30 million views. Why?

Because there is power in being seen, in fact, one of the nurses he did this with explained there were 10 million people in this city. But there’s something emotional about being seen, something powerful about that moment.

In fact, I can’t do anything as Rodriguez does, and I can’t do that either. If I tried to take a picture in a subway, I think I’d be on the news for all the wrong reasons, not the right ones.

But who you are, who he’s made you be, the path you’re on, and the circle of influences you have. He wants you to see the person he wants them to be seen by because you’re a follower of Christ.