The eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it,
---from the beginning of the year
---even unto the end of the year.
Deuteronomy 11:12
"The first word that glitters before us like a jewel in a crown, is that word “eyes,” “The eyes of the Lord.”
What is meant here?
Surely not mere omniscience.
In that sense the eyes of the Lord are in every place beholding the evil and the good.
God sees Hagar as well as Sarah, and beholds Judas when he gives the traitorous kiss quite as surely as he beholds the holy woman when she washes the feet of the Savior with her tears.
No, there is love in the text to sweeten observation.
---The expression of the text teaches us that the Lord takes a personal interest in us.
---The eyes that observe us are God’s own eyes, the guardian under whose protection we are placed is God himself.
---from the beginning of the year
---even unto the end of the year.
Deuteronomy 11:12
What is meant here?
Surely not mere omniscience.
In that sense the eyes of the Lord are in every place beholding the evil and the good.
God sees Hagar as well as Sarah, and beholds Judas when he gives the traitorous kiss quite as surely as he beholds the holy woman when she washes the feet of the Savior with her tears.
No, there is love in the text to sweeten observation.
---The expression of the text teaches us that the Lord takes a personal interest in us.
---The eyes that observe us are God’s own eyes, the guardian under whose protection we are placed is God himself.
Beloved, if God looks at us,
how much more ought we to look at him!
This year let your motto be, “Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness,.... Matt.6:33.”
Charles Spurgoen