Mensa Otabil - God Watches From Heaven (10/11/2025)
Psalm 14, verses 2 and 3: The Lord looks down from heaven upon the children of men to see if there are any who understand, who seek God. They have all turned aside; they have together become corrupt. There is none who does good, no, not one.
The passage shows that God is not absent from His creation; He observes it. God is involved in what happens here on earth. He watches what goes on in our world, and the picture that the verse paints is that of God sitting on His throne and leaning over to earth to examine what people are doing. He watches what we are doing here on earth, and what is God leaning over to see? The passage says He’s looking for people who are seeking Him or people who have understanding. The correlation is that people who are not seeking God have no understanding, and those are the people the passage addresses. So, God is looking for someone or for people who are not foolish enough to think that their life on earth is all by themselves; that they can live anyhow; that they don’t owe anyone an account.
If people are foolish enough to believe that, God is looking for them. And what does God see? The Lord sadly sees that the people of the earth have turned their attention from Him. People have turned their backs on Him. Left to their own, human beings want to live their lives without God. Because God is our accountability, once we take God out, we can live anyhow; we can use our bodies anyhow; we can use our thoughts anyhow; we can use the earth anyhow, because we account to no one-we belong to ourselves.
Every human being wants to live without God. Isn’t that what Adam and Eve wanted to do right there in the Garden of Eden? They wanted to live without God because God’s presence required that they choose right from wrong and do the right. They wanted to live a life where they didn’t have to make that choice; they didn’t have any moral limitations; they could behave anyhow-they are free; they do what they please. The Scriptures show us that beginning with Adam and Eve, this is how the human race has sought to live its life. Isaiah prophesies about the Messiah in Isaiah chapter 53, saying, «We have all gone astray; we have turned everyone to our own way.» That is the story of humanity, and it’s not surprising that in our age we see more and more people turning away from God.
They know God is, but they’ve said in their hearts, «There is no God.» Why? They want to do what they please. They want to treat their bodies as they please; they want to watch what they want to watch; they want to say what they want to say. They don’t want accountability. That desire creates the corruption in our world, and it is for that same reason that Christ came. God looks at the earth and says, «If I leave these people on their own, there’s no way they’re going to find Me. They’ve turned from Me, so I have to go down and show them My way.» In Christ Jesus, we see God’s way modeled by a human being for us to see the life that God wants us to live. Jesus Christ came so that we would not live life in our own way and do things that please us, but we would try as much as possible to have a sense of accountability-that we don’t live here all by ourselves; there’s one who brought us here, one who watches over us and desires that we live life by His rule. In Christ Jesus, we are accepted by God.
I don’t know whether you fit into this description, and if you do, maybe it’s time for you to bring some accountability to your life. Let God be in charge of your life and live with the sense that you are accountable to God for all your moral choices.
Let us pray. Say with me: Heavenly Father, have mercy on our world. Touch the hearts of all who have turned away from You. In Jesus' name, Amen.