It is amazing to me, that people can say they believe in THE LORD, and HIS MIGHT, but they struggle to believe that HE HAS TOTAL POWER to see, hear, and detect every stirring within us, and what comes of us! IF we KNOW *GOD* we KNOW that HE IS everywhere, IN everything, and OBSERVES all in CREATION! One doesn't have to know HOW HE does it, it is simply clear that HE CAN, and SHALL monitor everything in HIS CREATION, and for good reason, and purpose; one of which is that it is IMPOSSIBLE to feign allegiance to HIM, for the heart leads the being either in TRUTH or not!!!
Throughout THE WORD, there ARE references to those who think that *GOD* does not see, hear, or take note of what is done, and also, those who think that they will not call them to account. This IS IMPORTANT TO the people of this time, especially in raising Children, because too many believe we are far removed from THE LORD, and that HE ISN'T taking note of what is going on! And as evil increases, as it SURELY is, we see even those who call themselves Christians doing things totally against *GOD*, and what is *GODLY*, smugly sure that they are not under HIS radar, or that they can repent AFTER they do their unrighteous, and unjust deeds, from the lesser matters, all the way through to murder!!!
*GOD* IS WATCHING US, and IS taking notes; JUDGEMENT DAY WILL arrive one day, and we WILL bow before HIM to give account for our existence in this realm, and to learn of our eternal placement!!!
TRUTH IS before us, which DOES teach us, not only right from wrong, but SHOWS us the IDEAL HIS MAJESTY THE LORD would have for each of us! This isn't to say that we won't err, or trip, or fall; it IS to say that we ARE consciously, and conscientiously, learning, and growing INTO the TRUTH of our CALLING!!!
1+++O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
2+++You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
You understand my thought from afar.
3+++You scrutinize my path and my lying down,
And are intimately acquainted with all my ways.
4+++Even before there is a word on my tongue,
Behold, O LORD, You know it all.
5+++You have enclosed me behind and before,
And laid Your hand upon me.
6+++Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
It is too high, I cannot attain to it.
7+++Where can I go from Your Spirit?
Or where can I flee from Your presence?
8+++If I ascend to heaven, You are there;
If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there.
9+++If I take the wings of the dawn,
If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea,
10+++Even there Your hand will lead me,
And Your right hand will lay hold of me.
God has perfect knowledge of us, and all our thoughts and actions are open before him. It is more profitable to meditate on Divine truths, applying them to our own cases, and with hearts lifted to God in prayer, than with a curious or disputing frame of mind. That God knows all things, is omniscient; that he is every where, is omnipresent; are truths acknowledged by all, yet they are seldom rightly believed in by mankind. God takes strict notice of every step we take, every right step and every by step. He knows what rule we walk by, what end we walk toward, what company we walk with. When I am withdrawn from all company, thou knowest what I have in my heart. There is not a vain word, not a good word, but thou knowest from what thought it came, and with what design it was uttered. Wherever we are, we are under the eye and hand of God. We cannot by searching find how God searches us out; nor do we know how we are known. Such thoughts should restrain us from sin.
We cannot see God, but he can see us. The psalmist did not desire to go from the Lord. Whither can I go? In the most distant corners of the world, in heaven, or in hell, I cannot go out of thy reach. No veil can hide us from God; not the thickest darkness. No disguise can save any person or action from being seen in the true light by him. Secret haunts of sin are as open before God as the most open villanies. On the other hand, the believer cannot be removed from the supporting, comforting presence of his Almighty Friend. Should the persecutor take his life, his soul will the sooner ascend to heaven. The grave cannot separate his body from the love of his Saviour, who will raise it a glorious body. No outward circumstances can separate him from his Lord. While in the path of duty, he may be happy in any situation, by the exercise of faith, hope, and prayer.
Surely we ought not to use our members and senses, which are so curiously fashioned, as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin. But our immortal and rational souls are a still more noble work and gift of God. Yet if it were not for his precious thoughts of love to us, our reason and our living for ever would, through our sins, prove the occasion of our eternal misery.
How should we then delight to meditate on God's love to sinners in Jesus Christ, the sum of which exceeds all reckoning! Sin is hated, and sinners lamented, by all who fear the Lord. Yet while we shun them we should pray for them; with God their conversion and salvation are possible.
As the Lord knows us thoroughly, and we are strangers to ourselves, we should earnestly desire and pray to be searched and proved by his word and Spirit. if there be any wicked way in me, let me see it; and do thou root it out of me. The way of godliness is pleasing to God, and profitable to us; and will end in everlasting life. It is the good old way. All the saints desire to be kept and led in this way, that they may not miss it, turn out of it, or tire in it.
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