What would you do if you could really do anything? What would you do if you could "Get away with" anything? For example, there is a movie called, Hall Pass. It is the story of married men whose wives give them permission to have an affair without any repercussions.
What if you could be granted a "hall pass" to do anything you wanted for one day? Would you use it ? There are certain things in life which restrain our behaviour. Thomas Watson writes, "The consideration of God's omniscience would be preventive of much sin. The eye of man will restrain from sin; and will not God's eyes much more?... Men judge the heart- by the actions. God judges the actions by the heart." God knows all things; He knows our actions as well as our hearts. We can always adjust our actions depending on who we are- or aren't- with. But, you can;t just adjust the desires of your heart.
Consider this passage of Scripture from 1 Samuel 16:7: "The LORD does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart." When we look at all the various kings of Israel and Judah, we see that god always mentions the states of their hearts. God mentions the states of people's hearts not so that we can find ways to judge others, but so that we consider our own. God isn't calling us to become better judges of our peers, but to become better judges of ourselves.
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