His Eyes

DEVOTION
PROVERBS
HIS EYES
Prov 15:3
3 The eyes of the LORD are everywhere,
keeping watch on the wicked and the good.
NIV
If anyone thinks they can escape to some private place of iniquity they are sadly mistaken. The fact his eyes are everywhere would surely include his omnipresence. How could anything be hidden from him? David said, Where can I hide from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens,you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. If I say, “Surly the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” even the darkness is not dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. David knew this truth, even before his son was inspired by the Spirit of God to pen this saying. God is everywhere, and no one can hide from his watchful eyes. If would seem natural that man would love darkness, thinking it would hide their sin, but it does not. Is there significance that the bad are mentioned before the good? Surely it is only the good who pay any attention to these words anyway, so why bother with the bad? The bad are bad and God sees all their badness, all their sin, and surely he sent his Son to die for all of them, and all their sin, just as he died for all those who are now considered the good. For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. There is none righteous, no not one. Even when the good stumble and fall, thinking, saying or doing something which offends God, he sees. The difference it would appear is the bad do not care, but the good do. When the good fail God, not just because they know he is seeing, but because they love him, they seek his forgiveness, trying with all their strength to repent, to turn from that failure. Even if they fail again and again, forgiveness is available. The bad simply never ask, denying not only his watchful eyes, but his very existence. It may be possible some of those who are labeled by God as bad, actually think they may have some future time to seek his forgiveness, hoping they can go on with their sin, but just before death, make it right with him. Is this possible? It may be, but how much chance that is. Death can come at a seconds notice, and then lost forever is the result. No, it is far better a course of life to live for God, continually seeking his ways, being counted as the good.