We Cannot Shake Off The Presence Of GOD!

As if we saw two shining eyes 
looking on us out of the darkness!
(Thomas Guthrie, 1803-1873)

"Does HE not see my ways and 
count my every step?" Job 31:4 

"A man's ways are in full view 
of the LORD, and HE examines 
all his paths." Proverbs 5:21 

"The eyes of the LORD are everywhere, 
keeping watch on the wicked and 
the good." Proverbs 15:3 

"MY eyes are on all their ways; 
they are not hidden from ME, nor 
is their sin concealed from MY eyes." 
Jeremiah 16:17 
How solemn is the thought, that an invisible 
BEING is ever at our side and watching us--
recording with rapid pen each deed and word, 
every desire that rises, though it is to burst 
like a soap-bubble, and every thought that 
passes, though on an eagle's wing. 

We cannot shake off the presence of GOD! 
When doors are shut, and curtains drawn, and 
all is still, and darkest night fills our chamber, 
and we are left alone with our thoughts--
it might keep them pure and holy to say, 
as if we saw two shining eyes 
looking on us out of the darkness, 

"YOU, O GOD, see me!"
May GOD help you to feel yourselves 
at all times in HIS immediate presence! 

How promptly then would every 
evil thought be banished! 

What unholy deeds would be crushed 
in the desire, nipped in the bud, 
strangled in the birth! 


What crimes would remain uncommitted. 
How feeble would the strongest 
temptations prove!


What a purity, nobility, loftiness, 
holiness, heavenliness--
would be imparted to your whole 
bearing and conduct! 

"Can anyone hide in secret places 
so that I cannot see him?" declares 
the LORD. "Do not I fill heaven and 
earth?" declares the LORD. Jeremiah 23:23-24

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