A God Who Sleeps?

[The LORD'S] eyes see, His eyelids test the children of man. PSALM 11:4 + A God Who Sleeps? According to Cassiodorus…."eyes" denote God's clear knowledge concerning the righteous, while "eyelids" are, as it were, sleep and ignorance concerning the unrighteous. Not that God did not see both with equal clarity, but that He appears to the people themselves to be like this. For the righteous always act (in fear) as if the Lord saw them. But the ungodly walk along smugly, as if God has His eyelids closed and did not see them, even though He examines them, too, and knocks, warning their conscience, as Revelation 3:20 says: "I stand at the door and knock, etc." . . . Therefore if a person does not yet fear and see ... continue reading