My Answer

on Aug 19, 2026

From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham

Q: I was teaching my youth group about the fact that God watches our lives from Heaven. They were skeptical until I asked them how technology today can track our every move, yet suggest that God cannot possibly see what we do. Isn’t it true that God sees all? – G.W.

A: God’s omniscient spirit misses nothing. God sees everything and He keeps records. Sin cannot stay hidden. The Bible is the most remarkable of all records.

The Internal Revenue Service strikes fear in people, but that is nothing compared to the books God is keeping. He chronicles the acts of the human race, but He also “canceled the record of the charges against” those who repent of sin (Colossians 2:14, NLT).

God’s camera and recorder are working day and night, capturing everything on the heavenly computer – the mind of Christ. His hardware and software are Himself. He gives His people strength for hard times, and He puts truth down in the human heart that can have a softening effect. The Bible says God has put eternity into our hearts (see Ecclesiastes 3:11).

God indeed watches mankind: “The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good” (Proverbs 15:3, NKJV). God looks: “The Lord looks from heaven; He sees all” (Psalm 33:13, NKJV). Jesus sustains “all things by his powerful word” (Hebrews 1:3, NIV).

Someday each person will have to stand before a holy God and give an account at the great judgment day. Jesus said that every idle word that people speak they will have to give an account thereof. “There is nothing covered that will not be revealed … and what you have spoken in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops” (Luke 12:2–3, NKJV).

God will indeed judge sin righteously, and we can have peace in our hearts when we know that we are forgiven and follow Him.

(This column is based on the words and writings of the late Rev. Billy Graham.)