God Sees Your Secret Sin

The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good. (Proverbs 15:3)When I was in my late teens and early twenties, battling sexual sin, I sometimes lived like God was blind (or, if not blind, at least distracted and oblivious). I would never have said he was blind — I would have scoffed at the idea. Behind that outward clarity, though, was an inward and poisonous uncertainty. I was coddling a lie.Psalm 94 gives us a glimpse into the dangerous logic of persistent sin: