Day 15

"The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good." Proverb 15:3

When I was a kid, I think I was about 7 years old, I remember being mad. I don't remember what I was mad about but I was mad. I remember being in my room, which was in the basement, and I remember pacing back and forth, just steaming mad about something. I paced back and forth and back and forth and finally I went up to the wall that separated my room and my brother's room and I kicked it.

I kicked it hard enough that it made a whole in the wall.

Yikes.

All of the sudden my anger turned to fear. Oh no. If Mom and Dad see that they are going to be mad! Oh how can I cover it up? How can I make it go away?

Well, I wasn't exactly the sharpest tool in the shed, but I did find something that would fit over the hole and I managed to convince myself that that would be okay and that nobody would notice it. I mean, it wasn't a great, big huge hole and it was down by the floorboard anyway.

Well, I was wrong. It didn't take my brother too long to see it and poke his fingers through it. "Hey! Look!"

I couldn't keep my parents from finding out about that hole and the same goes for my actions before God.

Honestly, I often forget this fact, or it's at least not something that I am always aware of. I forget sometimes that God is watching and can see what I am doing. I think a lot of people forget this aspect of God.

I couldn't hide that hole for very long and I surely can't hide my sin from God either.

I know how it is. We can learn very quickly how to hide things from other people. When someone asks me how I am doing I can very easily say, "I'm doing great." and then continue to chat about work or weather or whatever. I don't go into the fact that I may have had a horrible attitude all day, that I struggled with if I should go to church or not, or that God told me to give a tract to the gal at the gas station but I ignored Him and disobeyed.

Could you imagine the reaction I would get if that was my response?

What I'm trying to say is that it is not difficult to put on a front for people. You can hide all your sin, you disobedience, your impure thoughts and words, your struggles, you can hide them all behind a smile and a "I'm great".

But that doesn't flow with God.

"But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart." 1 Samuel 16:7

You can't fool God. He sees all. As our verse in Proverbs says, His eyes are in every place.

But it's not all bad that God sees everything. Our verse says God is beholding the evil and the good.

When I am struggling...God sees it.
When I am down and need encouragement...God sees it.
When I do right...God sees it.
When I take a stand for Him...God sees it.
When I worry...God sees it.

"Hell and destruction are before the Lord: how much more then the hearts of the children of men? "
Proverb 15:11

That's a comforting thought: God always knows my heart. He cares. He doesn't have to but He cares. He can cheer me when I am sad. He can celebrate my victories with me. He can know what I need, when words fail.

"The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good." Proverb 15:3