I'm going to read a couple of verses from Psalm 139, but I'm really going to be sharing from the book of Proverbs. So the first couple of verses from Psalm 139, one through six, will just be background and lay something of a foundation, but then we're going to be in Proverbs chapter 15. So as background or foundational, Psalm 139, verses one through six. O Lord, thou hast searched me and known me. Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine uprising. Thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassed me, excuse me, thou compassed my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all of my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether. Thou hast beset me behind and before, and thine hand is upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me. It is high, I cannot attain unto it. And then Proverbs chapter 15 and verse three. The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. And here we have the omnipresence and the omniscience of God linked together, as they very often are, in the scripture. The omnipresence of God. God is in every place. And his omniscience, the fact that he knows all things. God beholds the good and the evil. And I guess there can be a few responses to this verse that God is in every place beholding the evil and the good. That thought, if you believe it, could be a scary thought, it could be uncomfortable, or for the believer, it should be a very good thought, something that we are thankful for, a blessed thought. Or like David, when David almost throws up his hands in a spiritual way and he considers the fact that God knows everything about him, and he says, this knowledge, it's too high for me. I cannot attain it. I cannot understand it. I cannot apply it to my life. I can think about it a little bit, but the reality of God being everywhere present and knowing all things is beyond my reach. But I think most people in the world, those who don't know God, of course, They don't have this belief in God that God knows all things or that God is everywhere present. If God exists at all, they might say he has been relegated to a far off in a distant place. He's far removed from the world. He's far removed from the individual. He is so far away from me that he doesn't know my individual thoughts or my motives or my actions or what I am doing. God does not know. God cannot be that big. He cannot be that awesome. He cannot be that grand and glorious, because I can't think and apprehend that thought. David fell into this a little bit in Psalm 50, verse 2, which we've talked about before. But the psalmist said something about God describing these human attributes to God. And God said, I have to reprove you. You thought I was altogether one as yourself. And God is not like we are. Mankind has transposed his knowledge of God into God's knowledge of man. So you know where the Bible says, speaking about the unbeliever, it says, God is not in all of their thoughts? They've transposed that, and they say, well, man is not in all of God's thoughts. God can not see. God does not know. God is not everywhere. But this is not the scripture's view. It's not the psalmist's view, as you know. David said, you understand my thoughts afar off. Whether they are good or evil, as you are beholding them, God, you know them. You're acquainted with all of my ways. There's not even a word in my tongue that God does not know. He talks about the little things, when I sit down, when I rise up. God, you know that. You are aware of that. God knows the motives. And this is in alliance with what Jesus talked about when he talked to his disciples about God's knowledge of the individual. Remember what he said to his disciples, the very hairs of your head are numbered? That does not mean God knows how many hairs you have. Well, it does, but think about that in a grander sense. He also knows how many hairs the person sitting next to you has. And he almost knows how many hairs everybody in the world has on their head. They might have lost some at night if they had a bad dream and they were tossing and turning and some hairs came off on their pillow, or they're growing a few new hairs. God knows those. But it's farther than that. God knows how many hairs are on the animals, your cat or your dog, or the bears in the forest. God really does know all things. David said, this is knowledge, it's wonderful, it's high, it's great. But remember, David also realized that this could be a little bit of an uncomfortable truth as well. David is not sipping tea in the pasture, watching the sheep, playing hymns on his recorder, thinking about God knows everything. Because remember, God was able to ferret out in David's life things that David ought not to have been doing. God has a very peculiar way to reveal our sins to us, and worse, to others. Think about David's sin with Bathsheba and killing Uriah, and ordering a census of the people, and some other things in David's life. David knew that God's knowledge affected God to the point where God would intersect his life, make his life uncomfortable at times, even miserable at a few times. So when David says, or the writer to the Proverbs says, the eyes of the Lord are in every place beholding the evil and the good, there's a lot there. It's not just a go, no go. It's not just a black, white. It's not just good and bad. There's a lot involved there. Again, God can reveal the bad as he reveals the good. And he has a very peculiar way of bringing to light things that are done in darkness. Think about Qahazi, which we looked at years ago, the servant of Elisha. Think about Ananias and Sapphira in the New Testament. And there's many other instances. Well, this morning, I would like to simply look at four areas from Proverbs 15 and verse 3. It's not gonna be an exposition per se, but we'll use Proverbs 15 and verse three as kind of a rough outline. First heading will be, we wanna talk briefly about the doctrine of the omniscience of God, the fact that God knows everything. Secondly, we'll look at God beholding the evil. Thirdly, God beholding the good. And then we'd like to make a few applications of this that I think we need to bring near to our life and our daily walk. And again, for the believer, it should be a blessing that God knows all things. And we'll look at that shortly. First of all, the doctrine of the omniscience of God. So if we wanna have a real primary elementary understanding of this, we would simply say, God knows all things. God knows all things. Theologians would say that the overarching heading is God's knowledge and his omniscience is the dimension or the extent of his knowledge, the bounding of his knowledge, the fact that he knows all things. A theologian, Lurie Burkoff, says this, the knowledge of God may be defined as that perfection of God, it's perfect, right? Whereby he in an entirely unique manner knows himself and all things possible and actual in one eternal, simple act. So let's say we have one second. We'll just use this because we don't understand eternity. Let's say we have one second. And so for one second, God, he only needs one second. He knows everything that has ever happened, that ever will happen. Not just the facts, but he knows the motives, the reasons, the outcomes, the implications. In just an instant, he knows everything. God's knowledge, there's no limitation upon it. God's knowledge is innate, that means it's within himself. Unlike us, we get knowledge from outside and we bring it into our life. We study, we learn, we continue to modify our knowledge as we learn more. God's knowledge is characterized by being absolutely perfect. His knowledge is characterized as being immediate. As I said, like in one second, God knows everything. Whereas you, if you are going to learn something, it's not simultaneous, but it's successive. You build upon knowledge that you learn, and you synthesize things, you put things together, and you get to know a certain amount of knowledge. God doesn't have to learn anything to add to his knowledge. He knows it all. This is what David said when he was in the womb. Even before he was formed and he knew anything, God knew everything there was about his entire life. God's knowledge is complete and fully conscious. We are partial. We forget. We don't know things, even when we think we do know them. God's quality and quantity, the extent of it, is all-encompassing. God knows himself. We don't know ourself. God knows all things past, present, and future. And God's knowledge is current. This is really the type of thing that we could talk about later, but it's current. And what that means is something that happened 10,000 years ago, to God, it's current. It just happened because his knowledge is like that. We forget things, but things past or present or future, they're current with God. It's like it's happening right now. That's his knowledge. His knowledge understands the hidden essence of things. We would say that we judge an individual by their actions. We would say, I know that person's heart because of what they did. The Bible says that God judges actions by the heart. God doesn't look on the outward, right? He looks on the inward. So God knows all things inclusively, comprehensively, completely, minutely, every detail. He knows the things about you that you don't want him to know. It's over, he already knows it, right? He knows the sins that we commit, that peculiar temptation that easily besets us. He knows things that you have forgotten or purposefully forgotten. He knows the real motives. He said in 1 Samuel, the Lord is a God of knowledge. By him, actions are weighed. He weighss out, he investigates. according to his knowledge. He knows the state of your soul. And again, this should be a positive and a good thing for the believer. So many believers struggle with the assurance of faith. And God is looking at you, if you are a believer, and he knows you are safe. And if we could understand the knowledge of God a little bit more and bring it near as a doctrine that is just not on a bookshelf someplace, but understand the reality of what that means to us, I think less believers would struggle with assurance of faith. Often we base our walk with God on externals or feelings. Have you ever heard someone, we used to have a friend who used to say this all the time, but they would fail at something or they would not do something they were supposed to do and they would say, well, God knows my heart. And what they meant was, well, God knows if I really want to do it, so I really would like to do it. But yeah, God knows the heart. And God knows if we're lukewarm or cold or we want to be lazy, spiritually lazy or whatever. So God knows all things. The omniscience of God. Psalm 139 and here in Proverbs 15. Now just by way of mentioning, the omnipotent, excuse me, omnipresence of God simply means God is everywhere present, not like a pantheist who thinks God is a rock and God is a tree. But God fills all space, and God fills all eternity. God is everywhere present. He's a spirit, so we can't see him. Or we would say, well, a physical body cannot inhabit the same space as another physical body, but God is a spirit. He fills heaven and earth, he says. He knows all things. Well, number two, the eyes of the Lord are in second place. He beholds the evil. He beholds the evil. Interesting word in the Hebrew, to behold, is a word that means he is a watchman or a sentry looking over a wall, like a city wall, looking to see if there's an enemy who's coming in, or looking to see if someone is escaping to go to the enemy. It's an interesting word because it really focuses on the intent watching. This word, it's translated as behold, but it's only translated as beholding twice in the Old Testament. Over 30 times, this particular word is translated as a sentry or a watchman who is keenly watching. He is beholding the evil. and the good. The word evil is simply the word that means evil, whether it's translated as naughty, bad, wicked, mischievous, wrong. And it's used not just for an act. It is used for thoughts. It's used for motives. It's used for the condition of the heart. The eyes of the Lord If we wanted to expand this verse, this part of the verse, the eyes of the Lord are in every place because he knows all things and he's everywhere present. He is beholding, that is he is leaning forward, acutely watching as a watchman. He is beholding the evil, the wickedness, the naughtiness, the wrong, the bad things. And of course, Jeremiah, asked the question, can anyone hide himself in secret places where that I will not see him, sayeth the Lord? Do not I fill heaven and earth? And so the beholding of the evil is comprehensive and complete. The reaction, this idea, we have to say a couple of things, a couple of considerations. The reaction that God has to beholding the evil is not static, but it's vigorous, it's lively, it's energetic. If you have children and your child is of an age where they know better and they deliberately do something that is wrong, is disobedient, is bad. The parent has an emotion. The parent has a desire to correct. Of course, God is infinite, God is eternal, God is holy. That analogy doesn't really carry the day, but God is stirred up, God is moved, God is filled with emotion. God is affected, God is righteous, and here are we all living in God's world, fallen, yes, inhabiting God's world, and for those who are partakers of this evil, God has stirred up. Habakkuk said, the eyes of the Lord are of purer eyes than to behold the evil, and he can't not look on iniquity. He knows it's happening, but it's antithetical to his nature. God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. God is glorious in holiness, perfectly righteous, and in heaven at this very moment, the sound in heaven, being in the presence of God, angels covering their eyes, sinless angels, his transcendent holiness. the Lord who is holy in all of his works, the Lord who is the fountainhead of goodness and grace. There is none as holy as the Lord," Samuel said. He is isolated from wickedness and evil. What must his reaction be when he beholds the evil, when his law is violated? God beholds the evil in every place, and he's affected with this righteous indignation. He is stirred up. But to take this one step further, he is stirred up, he is moved, he is filled with emotion when it's his children, the believer who gets caught up in evil. David, of course, is a good example, as we read in Psalm 139, and we know from his history God's reaction when he took the census, or when he committed murder and adultery. But really it's, I think Judges chapter 10, verse 16 says, God's soul was grieved for the misery of Israel. God saw what sin would bring. God knew that he would have to chasten them, or they would be sold into slavery, or something very negative would happen. They would be miserable. And God was just not flippant, casual. Even though they were in the wrong, even though we are in the wrong if we give in to sin or temptation, the heart of God is grieved for his people. Because he knows what sin does. He knows that the people of God's ability to serve and worship God is truncated, it's eclipsed, it's reduced. Like the soul of Isaac and Rebekah, the Bible says their soul was grieved when Esau took a Hittite for a wife. Because Isaac and Rebekah knew what that meant. Marrying an unbeliever from a clan or a tribe that was an unbeliever, And where that would lead, Esau. So God's reaction to beholding the evil is not indifferent. It's not static. It's vigorous. It's animated. It's responsive. And he has a righteous indignation, but he's also grieved when his own people commit evil or fall into evil or temptation. And that might not just be sin in general. That could be coldness of heart. That could be lukewarmness. That could be just something other than what God wants for us. But also under this heading, beholding the evil, we see because God has omniscient and he knows all things, hiding sin, ignoring God's truth is foolish and futile. We saw Adam and Eve in the garden when they had sinned. And remember, they tried to hide twice. First of all, they covered themselves with the fig leaf cloak, as it were. And then they had to go hide behind trees, because they knew the covering was not adequate enough. The ways of a man are before the eyes of the Lord, and God pondereth. all of his goings. Also in Proverbs chapter five and verse 21. The ways of a man are before the eyes of the Lord. And the eyes of the Lord are everywhere present. How futile. The sin of Achan, you recall that the revealed will of God was that when they fought the Amalekites, they were not to take any of the spoil. And Achan takes the spoil, he takes gold, He takes silver, and he takes a Babylonian garment, as though, I suppose, he's going to wear this Babylonian garment, and no one is going to say, hey, where'd you get that? He buries it. He hides it. And this is what the believer does sometimes when we transgress the revealed will of God, and we try to hide it. Of course, the outcome of Achan and his family was very, very bad. Gehazi, the servant to Elisha, who schemed to take a gift, he did the same thing. He hid it in his house. He attempted to cover it up. And then, when he was confronted with the reality of it, he justifies his thinking. He lies to Elisha, but in his mind, the servant of God should have gotten that money. Elisha said, no, I don't need the money. I don't want the money. And so Gehazi goes to take it. And you might think, well, that's a very innocuous thing. I mean, here's a servant of God. They did a tremendous miracle. And now this person who was the recipient of it, all they want to do is give money, and they want to be a blessing to Elisha. And Elisha said no. And when Gehazi goes to this person, the person says, yeah, I'll gladly give it to you. But remember, he did it under false pretenses. Remember, he said, Elisha wants to build a seminary, quote unquote, paraphrasing. Elisha can use it after all. It was a lie. It was a lie. How about King Saul? King Saul tried to cover up his sin and disobedience with a religious exercise. Keeping the best of the flocks, he said, we're going to offer an offering to the Lord. God beheld the evil, the evil that was in his heart, the attempt to cover it up, the fact that he got other people involved in his sin, the fact that it would be a reproach upon God's people. He did it in secret. God would shout it from the rooftop of his word, forever recorded in the Bible. Ananias and Sapphira tried to cover their sin with a lie, and of course the Holy Spirit found it out. Much more there, Ananias and Sapphira never should have owned land because they were from the tribe of Levi. They shouldn't have owned land. God saw their motives. They were very covetous from the very beginning. God shall bring every work into judgment with every secret thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil, the book of Ecclesiastes said. When God says every work and every secret thing, that's what God means. It's useless, futile, and foolish to hide. Prophet Amos said, though they dig into hell, yet there shall my hand find them. And that Amos chapter 9 is amazing because they go to Carmel, they go up to heaven, they go down to the sea, they go everywhere to hide from God. And God says, it shall not be. I will go and find them. Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before them to judgment. But some men, for some men, they follow after. Whether God brings a chastening hand, whether he brings a judgment, whether he, like David, brought this, intersected his life with his truth and there were consequences, whether it happens today or tomorrow or in the future, at judgment, it will happen. The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. The professing Christian of the 21st century, I think, needs to understand the reality of God's omnipotence, his omnipresence, and his omniscience. He's all-powerful in addition to being everywhere present and knowing all things. Again, Proverbs 28, he that covereth his sins shall not prosper. God's reaction is not static, he's animated. God is animated with grief when it's his people. And if we attempt to hide or cover up these things, it's foolish, because we cannot hide from God. Thirdly, the eyes are in every place beholding the good. God also beholds the good. It's the same word, beholding, of course, he's a sentry, he's a watchman, peering over the walls, looking very acutely to see the good. And this word good is a generic word that means any kind of good, sweet, kind, good, thoughtful, precious, best. Just like evil was an all-inclusive word for evil, this word for good is an all-inclusive word for good. The eyes of the Lord behold the good. I wanna ask you a question, a fundamental question about this whole idea, but before I ask the question, let me remind you, God, as we have seen, is omniscient, he knows all things. God has a reaction when he knows all things. In the case of the evil, God reacted, he stirred up, he's moved, he's affected, he has emotions. And now relative to this idea, the eyes of the Lord behold the good, the question for you is this. Can you please God? Can you please God? And before you answer that question, let me say that this can be a very difficult question. Because as someone who understands Reformed theology, someone who has walked with the Lord for a while, you know God doesn't need you. Right, God is all sufficient in and of himself. He doesn't need you. You know that all of your righteousnesses are as what? Filthy rags. Yes, you have been, quote, accepted in the beloved, but in that sphere, you've been accepted because of what Christ has done. So God is looking at Christ, his son, to accept you, does he accept you begrudgingly, or because he has to? Remember that there is, in today's Christian world, there's a one-sided view of God, that God is love, and only love, but you know that's not entirely true, because there's another side of the story. You see the severity of God, that it falls on certain people, his justice, You understand his sovereignty. You understand the truth that the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. Who can know it? When you think about the cross and you think about what Christ did to save you, and I wanna get back to the question, can you please God? Remember, Jesus had to have his active obedience, live a perfectly righteous life every day of his life, so he can give that to you. It's his righteousness, it's not yours. It's not yours mixed with his. His passive obedience, whereby he took away your sins on Calvary's cross and suffered and died. You, as a believer I trust, do not want to sing the song, will there be any jewels in my crown? You want to sing crown him with many crowns. You see that he is everything, and you are nothing. Your life is hid with Christ in God. Can you please God? Another verse before you answer that question. Luke 17, Jesus says, he's talking about his disciples. Which of you having a servant plowing or feeding cattle will say unto him, by and by, when he has come in from the field, You've done your labor, you've served well, but now you're coming in from the field, who will say, go and sit down to meet? But would rather will not say to him, make ready wherewith I my sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, until I have eaten and drunken, and afterward thou shalt eat and drink. Does he thank that servant because he just did those things that were commanded of him? I think not. So likewise you, Believer, disciple, when you have done all those things which are commanded of you, say, what are you supposed to say? I am an unprofitable servant. We have done that which is our duty to do. I personally don't mind being called an unprofitable servant because I am. And I personally don't mind fulfilling the duties of the master because we ought to do that. But what I want to know Since the eyes of the Lord are in every place beholding the good, can I please God by doing some good, being a do-gooder? If the answer is no, if I cannot please God, I have no joy. If I can't please God, I think I'm robbed of a chunk of the filial relationship that we're supposed to have with the Lord. The answer is, can you please God? The answer is yes. Yes, you personally, you individually, you as a person, whatever your personal history was as you came into the faith, as you continue on in the pilgrimage, you can please God, and he beholds the good in your life, and he is pleased. They that are in the flesh cannot please God. There it is, you can't please God. No, he goes on. But you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if so be the spirit of God dwelleth in you. The implication, you can't please God because you're walking in the spirit. 1 Thessalonians 4, verse one. Furthermore, then we beseech you, brethren, and we exhort you by the Lord Jesus Christ, that as you have received of us, how you ought to walk and please God, so you would abound more and more. He's saying, you've learned how to please God, just do it more and more. Sanctification is not just for you, it's for God. It is God that worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Abraham was called what? The friend of God. If you're a friend of God, doesn't that speak of a two-way relationship? Hebrews 12, 28 and 29. Wherefore are we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved? Let us have grace whereby we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and fear, for our God is a consuming fire. The answer is yes, we could please God. Not a clinical yes, but an actual and reality yes. God is not unrighteous to forget your labor of love. If you receive a prophet, you receive a prophet's reward. God is beholding the good. Colossians 1, verse 10, that you might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, fruitful, in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. Hebrews 13, that God would make you perfect in every good work according to his will, working in you that which is well-pleasing to him. Yes, through Jesus Christ. The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is perfect towards him. Zephaniah 3, he will rejoice over thee with joy, and he will joy over thee with singing. Oftentimes in the Reformed faith, there is a heavy, heavy emphasis on doctrine at the expense of how does that doctrine impact my personal life? Yes, God is entirely all-knowing and all-seeing, And He is perfect, and we are not. But because He is omnipotent and all-knowing, and He has so designed us to be a people that will, in fact, can bring forth good works and can please the Lord. And that's where our joy comes in. That's where satisfaction comes in. That's where worship comes in. He delights in His people. Let me close with just a couple of applications. The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. The psalmist said, Lord, you've searched me, you've known me, you know everything about me. How should we react? What is the takeaway of this truth? This truth should be an inoculation against sin and temptation. It should be an inspiration to do good. Not because we are afraid of doing the evil for that sake, but in a positive sense, we want to do the good, to be pleasing to God. It's not that we want to be obedient because we fear the rod. That's a very negative connotation. We want to please the Lord for what he has done for us. We need to be mindful of his omniscient eyes as he leans forward over the walls as a watchman to look in our life, beholding the evil and beholding the good. Do we want him to see us as a transgressor or as a child of God who seeks to please him? Do we want him to be grieved with us or pleased with us? Every moment of every day, we have an opportunity to make a conscious decision relative to the truth. We have a block of time that we could use for him. Our thoughts can be heavenward or earthbound. Temptations that come into our mind can be immediately dealt with. Opportunities can be used for him. Opportunities to serve him in secret with prayer, with meditating upon his word, with endeavoring to think his thoughts after him. The psalmist David said, I have set the Lord always before me, because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Wait a minute, David. You set the Lord beside you? God is omnipresent. God is there. There was a book written a few hundred years ago. I am not endorsing the book. You've probably heard it because there's been a resurgence of it. It's called Practicing the Presence of God. People are reprinting it and making money off it. I'm not endorsing the book, and I would not say we should try to practice the presence of God because then we're trying to visualize God. However, we should believe by faith that God is here, that he dwells in our hearts by faith, that he's there in your heart, in your life, never to leave. This truth should be an inoculation against sin and temptation. This reminds us that since the Lord knows all things, when I get up, when I, we should not shrink back from God's all-knowing eye. We have learned not to cover our sin. We want to obey the Holy Spirit and as the Spirit would bring things to light. David did not, this verse, this idea does not scare David. It was a welcome relief. to him. It matters what God thinks. We do not know our own heart. David was able to commit everything to the Lord. Every care, every problem, every issue. In essence, he was able to say, Lord, you know me. You know me entirely. And he would cast his cares upon the Lord, seeking God's help, God's wisdom. This should be a very positive thing for the believer. that the eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and beholding the good. Thirdly, in case this at times is a dismaying truth to you, you might at times think you're living in Romans 7. Oh, the good that I would, I don't do. And the evil that I don't want to do, that's what I do. Oh, wretched man, I know that in me, in my flesh dwelleth no good thing. Remember, that was Paul's, at a time, that was Paul's self-evaluation of his condition. And now, to think, I know I'm a wretched man, but God is beholding the evil and the good. What should I do? Remember, whenever you light upon a truth of the Bible, or what you think might be a truth, there's always, usually, a counterbalancing scripture that balances that scripture out. And yes, it is true that there is no creature that is not manifest in his sight. All things are naked and open with him with whom you have to do. But we also have a great high priest. Paul had a great high priest. Oh, wretched man that I am, who will deliver me? He goes on to say, thanks be unto God, right? Thanks be unto God. There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. We have a high priest. We have Christ who lived and died for us. Lastly, when you think about the omnipresence of God, put that in the context of redemption. What is the purpose of redemption? Is it not that for those who are far off, Ephesians 2, he's brought nigh? Isn't the whole purpose of redemption, as Jesus prayed in John 17, Father, I will, that they might be where we are, where you are, where I am, that we might be one? The whole purpose of redemption is to get you into the presence of God. So the omnipresence of God is a good thing. Of course he knows all things, and he knows the good and evil. but the omnipresence of God. That's the very purpose of redemption, to get you with him. So it's not something to be shunned or to be afraid of or to be cavalier or flippant about either. It's a big deal. But held in its right biblical tension, it should be a joy and a comfort to those who name the name of Christ. The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding both the evil and the good. He is that awesome of a God. He is that big of a God. He is that all-powerful of a God. It's the God we love, the God we serve. Well, let's pray. Father, thank you for your word today. Lord, this lesson is so, it just points us to the ability of our great God, even you, our Father, in light of knowing all things and of being everywhere present, to help us on our way and to guide our feet in the way in which we should go. Father, we pray that your word would take root in our hearts and it might bear fruit upward. Lord, that it would help us walk circumspectly in this life and in this world. Thank you for today. Thank you that we can be for this hour or so, we can be in your house, worshiping you with the brethren. We thank you in Jesus' name, amen.