Night Vision

For a sweltering twenty-five hours in July, 1977, New York City experienced a power outage. Thousands of New Yorkers poured into the streets to loot and burn the city. Roving bands of men, women, and children pulled down steel grills and shutters from storefronts and shattered glass windows, hauling away everything they could carry.

Others started fires. First responders fought more than one thousand blazes, and false alarms served as decoys while people ravaged the city. Over the course of the blackout, looters plundered 1,600 stores.

Most of the people involved showed no regret, except for having been caught.

People sometimes assume that darkness covers everything and that God doesn’t see in the dark. Somehow they think when the lights are off, no one will see. But God sees. Darkness is like daytime to Him. Nothing escapes His attention. There are no secrets with Him.

A friend of mine has a pair of night vision binoculars. We went into his backyard one night when it was pitch-dark. But when I looked through his binoculars, I could see everything. It was amazing.

In the same way, God sees everything. And He knows everything, even in the darkness.

Darkness doesn’t separate us from God. David wrote in the psalms, “I could ask the darkness to hide me and the light around me to become night—but even in darkness I cannot hide from you” (Psalm 139:11–12 NLT). There is no escaping His presence.

God sees us and loves us. Romans 8:38 tells us, “And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love” (NLT).

Nothing will separate us from God. Isn’t that great to know? God is everywhere.

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