Psalms 11:4 -- On How God Sees Us

"The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord’s throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men."
Psalms 11:4


This is a good reminder that God is truly in charge and that he sees all that we do and are. The thing that I find interesting about this verse is the part about eyelids. All the bible commentaries (at least on Bible Hub) say that the eyelid part is about the contraction of the eye when it is intently studying something.  They're probably right, but I was also thinking that because of our perception, it might be a trial to us if we think that God blinks or rests and thus misses something.

That's of course thinking of him as fallible, which as God he is not.  Because Christ has a body and has eyelids, we might therefore assume that his physical body does blink, and we are told that God rested during the creation.

We also read, however, that we need to look past the "outward appearance" (1 Samuel 16:7, 2 Corinthians 10:7) as God does.  And clearly, just in reading about Christ's life, he could see much farther spiritually than his physical eyes were able to reach.

Today, even when we are tempted to think of God as mortal and fallible, because of his eyelids or any other factor, let's remember that he is the creator of the universe, that his throne is in heaven, and that he sees us completely and individually... and then let's be glad of that--of our perfect friend who knows us perfectly and loves us anyway, who is willing to do all good things for us, to help and save us from ourselves and lead us to a better place. :)