He is watching
Acts 5:11
“Great fear seized the whole church and all who heard about these events.”
Great fear why? Because God was clearly watching. God knew all that was to know.
Growing up as a child I often heard it said, “Be careful God is watching”. The reason why I didn’t fall off the rails as a young man though I often wanted to was because I strongly believed God was watching. If I thought for a moment God’s gaze had not been on me then for sure I would have gone my own way.
Alexander Pope, a famous writer, once wrote: “Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; the proper study of mankind is man.” But an even more famous writer, Charles Spurgeon, responded to Pope’s statement: “It has been said by some one that ‘the proper study of mankind is man.’ I will not oppose the idea, but I believe it is equally true that the proper study of God’s elect is God; the proper study of a Christian is the Godhead. The highest science, the loftiest speculation, the mightiest philosophy, which can ever engage the attention of a child of God, is the name, the nature, the person, the work, the doings, and the existence of the great God whom he calls his Father.” (This came from Spurgeon’s first published sermon, titled The Immutability of God and delivered on January 7, 1855 – when he was 20 years old).
Our Father is indeed watching and we should live our lives in a healthy fear of that fact.
Missions Paul 