Joseph Saw God in The Room!

Joseph Saw God in The Room!

"The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good" (Proverbs 15:3).

The harboring of any known sin, either in heart of life, is a high contempt of the all-seeing eye of God - of the omnipresence of God.

It is well known that Abasuerus, that great monarch, said concerning Haman, when he found him cast upon the queen's couch on which she sat: "What!" says he, "Will he even assault the queen right here in the palace, before my very eyes!" What! will he dare to commit such a vallainy - as I stand and look on?

O sirs! to do wickedly in the sight of God, is a thing which He looks upon as the greatest affront and indignity that can possibly be done unto Him. "What!" says He, "Will you be drunk before Me, and swear and blaspheme before Me, and be wanton and immoral before Me, and break My laws before My eyes!"

This, then, is the killing aggravation of all sin - that is done before the face of God - in the presence of God! The consideration of God's omnipresence - that He stands and looks on, should be as a bar, to stop the proceedings of all wicked intentions; and a great dissuasive from sin.

It was an excellent saying of Ambrose, "If you cannot hide yourself from the sun, which is God's minister of light - how impossible will it be to hide yourself from Him whose eyes are ten thousand times brighter than the sun!"

There is no drawing of a curtain between God and you. When you are in secret consider that God is present!

God is all eye. He sees all things in all places, at all times.

The godly are dissuaded from wickedness, upon the consideration of God's eye and omniscience. Joseph saw God in the room - and therefore dared not yield to lust. But Potiphar's wife saw none but Joseph - and so was impudently alluring and tempting him to sin.

Oh, why shall not the presence of that God who hates sin, and who is resolved to punish it with hell-flames, make us ashamed or afraid to sin, and dare Him to His face! Let your eye be ever on Him - whose eye is always on you!

~Thomas Brooks~

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