Proverbs 15:3: The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.
Insight
How comforting is this truth to the weary heart, who, like poor Hagar in the desert, feels abandoned by all except One, but can say with assurance, “Thou, God, sees me”! To know that His eyes are on all our ways is sweet indeed when there is confidence and hope in Him. But for the wicked to know that he can never hide from those all-seeing eyes is perhaps the most terrible thing he has to face. It is sin unrepented of that makes it so dreadful a thing to be under the eye of God. He who acknowledges his guilt, and bows in repentance before Him, need no longer fear, for sin confessed is sin removed, through the atonement of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1
Application
King David says in Psalm 139:1–4 – “O Lord, You have searched me and known me. You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off. You comprehend my path and my lying down, And are acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word on my tongue, but behold, O Lord, You know it altogether.”
As you read these verses, does it cause your heart to become broken in humility before the One who has every right to condemn you, but instead He has redeemed you, cleansed you, filled you, keeps you, and gifts you to serve Him? Will you praise Him and worship Him at this very moment?
Motivation
Jesus answered him, Will you lay down your life for My sake? Most assuredly, I say to you, the rooster shall not crow till you have denied Me three times. John 13:38
The One who knows all is the One to whom you must give an account. – TWEET IT
Prayer
Father, thank You for keeping me from evil, and for teaching me how to do good.
1. Ironside, H. A. (1908). Notes on the Book of Proverbs. Neptune, NJ: Loizeaux Bros.
