Eyes are often mentioned in God’s Word. There we learn that
“The Eyes of the Lord”
are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.” (Prov. 15:3). “The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth” (2 Chron. 16:9), and “all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of Him with whom we have to do” (Heb. 4:13).
Nothing done is hid from Him, so that all day, and every day you may say, “Thou God seest me.” (Gen. 16:13). All the ways of man are “before the eyes of the Lord” (Prov. 5:21). Nothing can be hid from them. Even “secret sins” committed in the dark are well known to Him. And for all these things God will bring sinners into judgment (Eccles. 11:9), and they will have to give account to Him of all that they have done.
Some, both old and young, who are
“Clean in Their Own Eyes”
(Prov. 16:2), are not “washed from their filthiness” (Prov. 30:12). They are
“Right in Their Own Eyes”
(Prov. 21:2), but wrong in the eyes of the Lord and need to be saved. To get
“The Eyes Opened”
(Acts 26:18), to see our sinful condition, is our first need. Then to look to Christ (Isa. 45:22) for salvation, as the Israelites did to the brazen serpent on the pole (Num. 21:8: John 3:14).
“Our Eyes Are Upon Thee”
(2 Chron. 20:12), expresses faith’s look to God, first for salvation, then for preservation each day, all the way.
But to disbelieve and reject Christ causes
“The Eyes to Be Closed”
(Matt. 13:15), then “blinded,” so that they cannot see.
“In Hell He Lifted Up His Eyes”
(Luke 16:23), tells of the awful end of such a life — in torments, with a great gulf fixed between the soul and heaven — “afar off” from light, and love — from Christ forever.
ML-03/21/1976