By Kingsley Baehr

March 30, 2010, I had cataract surgery on my right eye. The left one will be cleared up in a few weeks. You see, I am an old man. My 73rd birthday was in February of this year. My eyesight was gradually dimming and blurring as the cataracts were gradually growing. I thank God for modern technology and ophthalmologists who have the skill and dexterity to replace a corneal lens.
boring me with this old-geezer information?” you ask.
Because it occurred to me that God is old too, a whole lot older than I, if I may have the liberty to describe an infinite God in terms of time. Is His eyesight growing dim? As He gets “older” can we hide more and more things from Him that we would prefer that He not know about? Has He lost track of us, so we don’t have to worry about what He thinks of us?
Because Depending on our viewpoint of Him, we will like or dislike the answer. Note the following verses from the Bible:
“For His [God’s] eyes are on the ways of a man, and He sees all his steps.” - Job 34:21
“The eyes of the LORD are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.” - Proverbs. 15:3
“For the LORD sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.” – 1 Samuel 16:7
“And no creature is hidden from His [God’s] sight: but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of Him to Whom we must give account.” - Hebrews. 4:13
OUCH!!
If we are trying to hide from God, these verses make us very uncomfortable, and we find ourselves squirming in embarrassment and even fear.
“For this people’s heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear; and their eyes they have closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn, and I [God] would heal them.” – Matthew 13:15
BUT if we are ready to acknowledge our sinfulness and mad scrambling to hide from God, and in broken-hearted humility turn back toward Him, what we read in the Bible is very comforting and eternally valid.
“Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those who fear Him, on those who hope in His steadfast love, that He may deliver their soul from death...” - Psalm. 33:18,19a
“I [God] will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go: I will counsel you with My eye upon you.” - Psalm. 32:8
“The LORD opens the eyes of the blind. The LORD lifts up those who are bowed down: the LORD loves the righteous.” – Psalm 146:8
Then our prayer will be:
“Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of Your law.” – Psalm 119:18
And as Job of old, we, also, will be able to say with deep conviction:
“I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last He will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God, Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another.” – Job 19:25-27c