All-Seeing and All-Knowing by David Jeremiah

Tuesday, February 13 All-Seeing and All-Knowing    To the angel of the church of Ephesus . . . Smyrna . . . Pergamos . . . Thyatira . . . Sardis . . . Philadelphia . . . Laodiceans write.  Revelation 2:1, 8, 12, 18; 3:1, 7, 14    One estimate puts the number of closed-circuit TV (CCTV) cameras worldwide at 350 million as of 2016. Long used in companies and homes for security, they are now used to blanket metropolitan streets with a visual record of everything that happens. Besides CCTV, there are drones and satellites that provide a 24/7 eye-in-the-sky record.

Recommended Reading: 2 Chronicles 16:9

Depending on who is watching, surveillance can seem threatening and invasive. But such “all-seeingness” is not new. God has been all-seeing, all-knowing, and all-hearing from the beginning (Genesis 16:13; Psalm 139:1-12; Matthew 12:36). How else would Jesus Christ have been able to send specific messages to the seven churches in Asia Minor about their practices and character (Revelation 2-3)? Those letters were very specific. Such letters can be a warning to us if our behavior parallels theirs, or a comfort in terms of Christ being aware of the price we may pay for serving Him. In either case, we should never doubt God’s awareness of the details of our lives.  Live today as an open book before the Lord—a life you are happy for Him to see and bless. The heart is deceitful…It would deceive [God]—if He were not omniscient.  William S. Plumer