"People saw my race before they saw me as a person for my entire life."
How it sounds in your head: Eighty years of being a category before a human. They never saw ME—just the color, the features, the background. I'm dying and still nobody really saw who I was. It defined every interaction until the end.
"So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them."
-- Genesis 1:27World system + enemy using human blindness to make you doubt the IMAGE OF GOD in you.
Lifetime of measurable discrimination and being reduced to racial category. The pattern was consistent and painful across eight decades.
Hagar was a Egyptian slave, invisible and discarded by everyone. When God met her in the wilderness, she named Him 'THE GOD WHO SEES ME'—INSTANTLY recognizing she was fully seen by Heaven even when humans treated her as disposable.
I REFUSE the lie that I was just a racial category to people. IT IS WRITTEN: I am created in the IMAGE OF GOD. What people failed to see doesn't diminish what Heaven declares. Their blindness was their loss—I was always SEEN by the Father. IT IS WRITTEN: I am His workmanship created in Christ Jesus. The God Who Sees Me saw EVERYTHING they missed. My identity isn't shaped by human categories but by divine IMAGE. I am MASTERPIECE first, last, and always.
The Father never saw you through the world's racial lens. Every moment humans reduced you to a category, He saw His IMAGE-BEARER, His crafted masterpiece, His BELOVED SON—fully seen, fully known, fully cherished beyond every label.