Here is a high king or some significant official. Don’t curse him, not even in your thought.
How much more with God! You mutter against God and don’t you consider that there are a flock of birds to carry the message to him. ‘All things are naked and opened unto the eye of Him with whom we have to do.’ The verse is about independence being the policy of your life. You want to determine your own affairs, to do as you like, to behave as if God isn’t there. But if you disdain the Lord and will not hear him, don’t you think that he who is mightier than the greatest will see it? Every secret thought is known to God; all things are naked and open to him. This is Solomon reasoning with the recalcitrant and the tardy. It is about the person who delays coming to Christ or refuses to come. Moreover, when we approach God let us come to him with a single heart not a divided heart; let us approach him in sincerity, having reverence for him and both saying and thinking what we know to be acceptable to him. Do you imagine that as a seeker, you can hold one view of God in your heart and present another view of him to his face? Can you feign sincerity to him and convince him that you are going to follow him with all you heart when in fact you intend to carry on with certain sins that you know are unacceptable to him? He will surely find this out. Therefore, let us come into the open before him, into the light, and disclose our hearts unreservedly to him. Confess to him the sins you are ashamed of; if there are temptations which you struggle against, then ask for his help and do not try to keep them out of his sight.