Who sees us? Who will know? By Charles Simeon The fool says
in his heart, there is no God. Psalm 14.1 Who is the Almighty, that we
should serve him? And what profit do we have if
we pray to him? Job 21.15 Yet you say, what does God know?
Does He judge through such darkness? Job 22, verse 13. The wicked think, God is not
watching us. He has closed His eyes and won't
even see what we do. God will never call us to account.
Psalm 10, verses 11 and 13. They say, how can God know? does the Most High have knowledge?
Psalm 73, verse 11. They say, the Lord does not see. The God of Jacob does not pay
attention. Psalm 94, verse 7. They are saying, the Lord does
not see us. The Lord has abandoned the land.
Ezekiel 8, verse 12. They think the Lord will do nothing,
either good or bad. Zephaniah 1.12 You have said, What is the use
of serving God? What have we gained by obeying
His commands? Malachi 3.14 Most people suppose that God
has no concern about what is happening on earth and that He
will neither punish the wicked nor reward the godly. Therefore
they imagine that it is both unnecessary and foolish to make
Him an object either of our hope or our fear. Yet God continually
sends us warnings in his word that a time is coming when he
will clearly make a separation between the wicked and the righteous
by the awful judgments which he will inflict on the one and
the unspeakable blessings which he will confer on the other.
Yes, how different the states of God's friends and God's enemies
will be in the eternal world. The day of judgment is called
the day of God's wrath when his righteous judgment will be revealed.
Romans chapter 2, verse 5. Alas, alas, where shall the wicked,
the objects of God's vengeance, flee? How shall they dwell with
everlasting burnings? Who can conceive the anguish
with which they will weep and wail and gnash their teeth for
all eternity? Then they will call to the mountains
and the rocks, fall on us and hide us from the face of Him
who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb. For the
great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand? Revelation
chapter 6, verses 16 and 17. View on the contrary the godly,
when God will wipe every tear from our eyes. when there will
be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, when we shall
be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is, when we shall be
in His presence, where there is fullness of joy and pleasures
forevermore. Who can conceive the transcendent
bliss of such a state? But though we know not yet what
we shall be, so far as respects the degrees of the misery of
the godless, or the happiness of the godly, we know that the
distance between the righteous and the wicked will be immeasurably
great. Oh that we would ever contemplate it, that we might
all fear the Lord, and walk in His fear to the last day of our
lives. Then the king will say to those on his right, come,
you who are blessed by my father, take your inheritance, the kingdom
prepared for you since the creation of the world. Then he will say
to those on his left, depart from me, you who are cursed,
into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
Matthew chapter 25, verses 34 and 41. Woe to those who go to great
depths to hide their plans from the Lord, who do their work in
darkness and think, who sees us? Who will know? Isaiah 29,
verse 15.