THE DIVINE EYE

And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.–Luke 1:6

Sometimes great people get overlooked by others, but never by God. Here is God’s description of Zacharias and Elisabeth, the parents of John the Baptist. As we go about our daily business we need to remember that it is God’s opinion of us that matters most, not what others think about us. Listen to these comments on our text from the pen of the late J. R. Miller:

This is a beautiful thing to have said of them. Yet, after all, that is the test which every life must endure. It is not enough to have human commendation. The question is–how do we stand before God? How does our life appear–to Him?

It does not matter how men praise and commend us–if God sees that we are living wrong. The Pharisees were righteous before men; but if you would see how they stood in God’s eye, read the twenty-third chapter of Matthew.

We are in reality–just what we are before God–nothing less, nothing more. The question we should always ask ourselves is, “What does God think of me?” If we would meet His approval, we must first have our hearts right, and then we must be blameless and true in every part of our life.

We should live just as purely and beautifully in secret–as in the glare of the world’s gaze.

There really is no such thing as secrecy in this world. We imagine that no eye is looking–when we are not in the presence of men. But really, we always have a spectator; we are living all our life in the presence God Himself! We should train ourselves, therefore, to work for the Divine eye in all that we do, that our work may stand the Divine inspection, and that we may have the approval and commendation of God Himself.