If we are always good does God lose track of us?

[greenstorm]

The Answer

Is the clarity, the simplicity, an arriving
or an emptying out? If the heart persists
in waiting, does it begin to lessen?
If we are always good does God lose track
of us? When I wake at night, there is
something important there. Like the humming
of giant turbines in the high-ceilinged stations
in the slums. There is a silence in me,
absolute and inconvenient. I am haunted
by the day I walked through the Greek village
where everyone was asleep and somebody began
playing Chopin, slowly, faintly, inside
the upper floor of a plain white stone house.

by Jack Gilbert

Comments

[dunfalach.livejournal.com]

The simple answer to that question is that no one is always good. "All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him (Jesus) the iniquity of us all." - Isaiah 53:6

As for whether God can ever lose track of us, the answer for that one is Psalm 139. No secret is so deep as to be hidden from His gaze. No person so insignificant as to be beneath His notice, even if we sometimes feel so. Of course, this works for both the good and the bad. Everything we most want hidden or most think hidden is plain to His sight. Yet He does not cease to love, even though He punish.