The wicked live as if God were neither omnipresent nor omniscient. They imagine that God is not in that secret chamber where they follow out their evil passions. They imagine that out of man's sight, is also out of God's sight. They act and live as if God were either dead, or else were blind and deaf, utterly oblivious to everything that is done on the earth. How blind must they be, who think God to be blind!
They imagine that God is absent either in person or in mind, and that in some secret places they can hide away from Him, and with impunity follow their own evil desires. But the fact that God is omnipresent, is a deathblow to sin! Nowhere in the universe is there a secret place to commit sin.
Christians! May we never fall into this absurdity! There is nothing concealed from His all-seeing eye. We must consciously live under His omnipresence.
Would I be willing to think, speak, and act as I do; if I were fully conscious at every moment, of standing in the immediate presence of the holy God?
[Charles H. Spurgeon]
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Psalm 10:11 ... He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
Isaiah 29:15 ... Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
Job 34:21-22 ... For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings. There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
Hebrews 4:13 ... Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.❤
