God's All-Seeing Eye: The Universe's Moral Apparatus

For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord (Proverbs 5:21). God announces Himself the witness and judge of all mankind. The evil-doer can neither elude the all-seeing eye nor escape from the almighty hand. Secrecy is the study and hope of the wicked; a sinner's chief labour is to hide his transgression—yet that labour is all lost. Darkness hideth not from God.

He who knows evil in its secret source limits the range of its operation through a singular principle: sin becomes the instrument for punishing sinners. The transgressor's own sin is the snare that captures him and the scourge that lashes him. The Maker and Ruler of all things has set within the universe a self-acting apparatus constantly working for the encouragement of good and the repression of evil.

Yet God's vision extends to the infinitesimal. Who sees the individual blade of grass? He alone who made the grass to grow upon the mountain. He knows every blade and provides for each recognition, sunshine, and dew. So too with the lowliest man in this world—God's eye loves goodness and delights in it. There is no goodness which He fails to recognize and bless. Thus every man under law to God must ponder his feet, knowing that his ways stand perpetually before the eyes of Jehovah.