"The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good." Proverbs 15:3
There is nothing hid from God. Hagar was all alone in the desert but still could say, "Thou God seest me" (Genesis 16:13). If we could only live in the realization that God sees all we do, and hears all we say, and knows all our thoughts, it would keep us from many a sin and mistake. Samuel said, "Man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart" (1 Samuel 16:7). God never sleeps. David says, "He that keepeth thee will not slumber" (Psalm 121:3). This is both a comforting and a disturbing thought. It is a comfort to the child of God to know that a loving Father is watching constantly over him. But is also a disturbing thought for the sinner and the Christian who is not walking uprightly before Him.
The modern inventions of men have made it much easier to understand the great truth that God sees all. For example, some weeks ago there was flashed on the television screen a picture of an actual operation on the heart of a man. You could see the heart pulsating, watch the graph of the pulse beats, the fluctuations in blood pressure and the rate of respiration. The operation was being performed 1500 miles away, yet by means of television it could be seen in our homes as though we were actually present. We marvel at this: but there is not a throb of the human heart unknown to God. He sees it all. What a solemnizing thought to know that, today, our every act, word, and thought is being noticed by Him. If He were standing right behind me now as I write these words, looking over my shoulder, He would not be any nearer than He actually is. In one of the offices of the Class hangs a sign: "You are being watched!" O Lord our God, help us today to do nothing which we would hide from Thee whose "eyes behold, and eyelids try, the children of men" (Psalm 11:4).
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This book has a copyright date of 1962. If you're interested in how much further we've come with technology, check out this video:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-YeEgq5sO7NNm90dVp3WU55ODg/view
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