The Eye in the Sky

3758/10000 The Eye in the Sky Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon those who fear Him ( and worship Him with awe-inspired reverence and obedience), on those who hope in His compassion and lovingkindness, Psalm 33 v 18 If we submit all our applications to the Lord, His eye will always be riveted on us. He will never take His gaze off us. He reveals new grace to us as we plead with the Lord for our need. The enemy wants to knead us like dough but the Lord gently covers us with His palm. As we are grateful to Him, as we are always in awe of the Lord, His word and His ways, He is always focused on us even as a parent is focused on a special child, trying to protect the child, meeting her needs. We are in awe of His power, justice, knowledge, wisdom but we have hope in His love, mercy and grace. Even a keyhole of hope in the Lord and His word leads to a full door of opportunity and many wonders being manifested in our lives. Our hope or our confidence is not in wealth, our abilities, our connections, or human power but it is in the Lord. Paul describes God as the God of hope, the God of peace and the only wise God. These three dimensions of the nature of God are what makes Him awesome. As we depend on Him, He not only defends us but our hopes are fulfilled so that our joy is overflowing for a desire fulfilled is sweet and nourishing to the soul. He gives us deep inner peace as we wait for the fulfilment of the hope. He gives us wisdom regarding what we need to do as we wait on Him. Hence, we should not wait with wringing of fingers in anxiety or frustration but continually worship the Lord like Simeon who waited for his hope to see the face of the Messiah of Israel. Our humble and obedient submission to the expressed will of God is needed to please Him. In the lexicon of God, faith is equated with obedience. Though God’s grace cannot be earned or deserved by definition, our attitudes certainly brings us the reward of gaining the attention of God. The eye of the Lord is described in scripture as being “seven eyes of the Lord” implying that His eye is upon on every aspect of our lives-physical, intellectual, emotional, spiritual, social, monetary and relational.