The Lord Is Watching

I prayed this morning about writing a Tidbit or a song and when I finished praying this song came to my mind, “His Eye is on the Sparrow and I Know He Watches Me.”  I haven’t heard or thought about this song, in I don’t know how long, but I liked it when I heard it long ago.  I know that somehow God sees all things and knows all things.

Read what King David said in Psalms 139:1-3, “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.”

David believed that God knew everything about Him, even His thoughts and what he was going to say even before he said it.  

Read verses 4-5 in that same chapter, “For there is not a word on my tongue, but behold, O Lord, You know it altogether. You have hedged me behind and before, and laid Your hand upon me.”

David felt that there was no way to get away from God, nor did he want to.

Now read verses 6-18 in that same chapter:

“Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;

It is high, I cannot attain it.

Where can I go from Your Spirit?

Or where can I flee from Your presence?

If I ascend into heaven, You are there;

If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.

If I take the wings of the morning,

And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,

Even there Your hand shall lead me,

And Your right hand shall hold me.

If I say, “Surely the darkness shall fall on me,”

Even the night shall be light about me;

Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You,

But the night shines as the day;

The darkness and the light are both alike to You.

For You formed my inward parts;

You covered me in my mother’s womb.

I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

Marvelous are Your works,

And that my soul knows very well.

My frame was not hidden from You,

When I was made in secret,

And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.

And in Your book they all were written,

The days fashioned for me,

When as yet there were none of them.

How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!

How great is the sum of them!

If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand;

When I awake, I am still with You.”

As far as I can tell David loved God from the time he was a very young man possibly most of his life.  David knew that God knew everything about Him and he was so sure that he walked humbly before his God that he said this in verses 23-24 of that same chapter, “Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my anxieties; and see if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.”   

I am not saying the David was perfect, no one but the Lord himself was perfect, but he was a man that when he was confronted with sin knew how to repent, and he did, and that was why God could say that David was a man after His own heart.

I will give you one more example of how God knows all things from the New Testament in Luke 12:1-3, “In the meantime, when an innumerable multitude of people had gathered together, so that they trampled one another, He began to say to His disciples first of all, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. For there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, nor hidden that will not be known. Therefore whatever you have spoken in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have spoken in the ear in inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.”

How would you like all the things that you have spoken in private to be shouted from the roof tops for everyone to hear someday?  This is one of the reasons why it is so important to repent and turn from your sins and confess them to the Lord.  You can even confess them to one another if you feel like you have a faithful brother or sister in the Lord.  Then turn to the Lord and sincerely ask Him to forgive you of your sins when you are being convicted of them by the Spirit of God!!

Please read one last verse 1 John 1:9, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”   

I hope this Tidbit has been an encouragement and a blessing; we all need to be reminded of these things at times.  May the good Lord bless you and yours and may you have a super day!!