“God can’t see us in our house,” said three-year-old David, as he looked at the star-filled sky above him. His grandmother had just reminded him of his Sunday school memory verse — “Thou God seest me.”
“Yes, He can,” said Grandmother. “And He can even see us at night.”
“But we close the curtains on our windows at night,” was David’s reply.
David’s grandmother patiently explained how God can see everything we do, hear everything we say, and knows everything we think. So there is no hiding from Him. Children are not the only ones who think it is possible to hide from God. Teens and grownups both sometimes think this way about their sins. But God has said, “Be sure your sin will find you out” (Numbers 32:2323But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the Lord: and be sure your sin will find you out. (Numbers 32:23)). God does not want us to try to hide from Him, but to admit our sins to Him. “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:99That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. (John 1:9)).
ML-11/26/2000