Privacy doesn’t really exist. Alone time doesn’t either. Even in the most secret place, the door is wide open. So I’ve been reminded this morning by a couple of verses in Proverbs 15.

The eyes of the LORD are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.   (Proverbs 15:3 ESV)

Reminded this morning of the omnipresence of God. His eyes are in every place. He sees it all . . . nothing gets by my God. Whether evil or good, it is registered by a God who is capable of noticing it all. Think about it!!! Not an action . . . not a word . . . not a thought escapes Jehovah, the “Existing One.” Just spend a couple of seconds thinking about that kind of evokes a couple of responses . . . first, “Awesome!!!” . . . then, “Yikes!!!”

Just how big is my God? Way big!!! It’s so easy to just skim over a Scripture like this without at least trying to take it in and comprehend something of what it says about our God. Nothing is beyond His awareness . . . I don’t need to “let God in” on what’s happening with me . . . I can’t hide from God . . . His eyes are in every place. These are the sort of reminders that keep us from “downsizing” our God . . . from fitting Him into a box of our own making . . . from somehow thinking He’s “manageable.” No,our God is beyond comprehension . . . His capacity for knowledge and understanding doesn’t even register on any scale we can imagine . . . God is God — nothing less . . . Awesome!

And when, by faith, I really start to grasp this, then the second response starts to kick in . . . “Yikes!! He watches everything I do? He knows every thought I think?” . . . Yup!!! A little later in Proverbs 15 Solomon writes this,

Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the LORD; how much more the hearts of the children of man!    (Proverbs 15:11 ESV)

If the very depths and dark recesses of Hell and Destruction are splayed before the Lord, then knowing the inner workings of men’s hearts is a “gimme” for God. So . . . now it starts to get a bit personal. I’m okay with God knowing everything about everyone else . . . but me? His eyes are keeping watch on my actions? . . . He knows all about my good . . . and about my evil? Yikes! I find myself saying with the Psalmist . . .

You hem me in, behind and before, and lay Your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.   (Psalm 139:5-6 ESV)

Do I fully comprehend it? No. But do I believe it? Absolutely! And so what does God do with such awareness and knowledge?

Jesus says He stands at the door of my heart and knocks and asks to be let in (Rev. 3:20). He stands outside the door and asks to be let in but that doesn’t mean that what’s behind that door is a secret to Him. According to these Proverbs insights, He knows all that’s going on inside there . . . and yet, despite what He knows and sees, He still knocks . . . still desires to come in . . . and respectfully awaits the invitation. Oh the love of God!!! The grace of God!!! The desire of God to receive my invitation for Him to come into what He already knows exists and do some house cleaning by His blessed Spirit.

The reminder of His all seeing eyes certainly creates within this heart “the fear of the Lord” . . . but not a fear that cowers . . . or tries to run . . . or somehow thinks it can hide from those all-knowing eyes. But a fear that bows the knee . . . acknowledges the greatness of my God . . . and praises the love and grace of a God who wants to interact with what He sees . . . and invites Him in!!!

The door’s wide open . . . He see’s everything. The door’s wide open . . . as I ask Him into it all . . . to redeem and restore it by His grace and through the blood of Christ. To Him be all glory . . . from doors wide open.