Does God see you? Psalm 78-80

Psalms 80:3 (NASBStr)

O God, restore us

And cause Your face to shine upon us, and we will be saved.

This same verse appears in this same Psalm three times.  Here, verse seven and, at the end of the chapter, verse nineteen.   God has given us this Psalm to enable us to know the salvation and power of His saving grace.   To be saved we first need someone to notice that we are dead.   We can't notice first that we are dead because ... we are dead.   Dead people don't notice anything.   The Psalm is simply stating that before there is any saving we need the only One who can save to turn and see us dead.   If we were simply floating in the water, unconscious, we would need another boater to see us for us to be rescued.   The same is true about our salvation.   God first must turn His face to us.  Once that happens, and only after that happens, can we be saved.   God can restore and save after He looks at us.  We need to pray each day that God will turn and see our loved ones and save them.