You probably sang that song in your mind if you're a child of the 80's. The song is by a band named The Police. A band that no longer exists but their music lives on rent free in a lot of minds. The main point of the song is that someone is always watching. As creepy as that might sound on a physical level, consider Pirkei Avot 2:1 "Know what there is above you: an eye that sees, an ear that hears, and all your deeds are written in a book."
HaShem sees everything we do. 2 Chronicles 16:9 "For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him..." HaShem is constantly searching the earth, looking for those who acknowledge Him in all things. That is what loyalty is. It means to be faithful to His directions, instructions and teachings, i.e., the Torah.
His eyes are continually on us but here is the million dollar question: Are our eyes continually on Him? Do we acknowledge His Presence in every aspect of life? The sin in Gan Eden wasn't a sin of appetite. It was a sin of removing the fruit from its source. Separating the fruit from the place of origin. In that moment Adam disconnected from HaShem, forgetting that all things come from and are sustained by the power of His word (Hebrews 1:3). That is the greatest challenge we face in this world of concealment: to always, in every moment, infuse our lives with kavanah (intention) to elevate the sparks of the Divine from the level of mundane to the level of kedushah (holiness).
This is the reason behind the Rabbinical mandate to recite one hundred blessings per day. Not because they desire to control and regulate our every waking moment. Chas v'chalilah! (God forbid!) It is to help us remember HaShem and His continual blessing upon us in every aspect of life.
"God greatly desires a dwelling place in the realm of the physical, and gave the earth to man for the sole purpose of revealing His dominion. This revelation is the basis for our relationship with God. When engaging in the physical, we must not automatically detach ourselves from God. To the contrary, with our blessings we acknowledge that our mundane physical needs are intimately connected to our Godly inner essence. God gave the earth to us so that, as we engage in the physical, we do not detach ourselves from Him, but on the contrary, we consecrate our acts. Each bite (of food) becomes an affirmation of faith, but only if we consciously act to sanctify it (Living in the Presence: Benjamin Epstein Ph.D pg. 194)."
This was the greatness of Avraham Avinu: Genesis 26:5 "And I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heaven; I will give to your descendants all these lands; and in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed; 5 because Abraham obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.” Avraham infused every act with the intention of fulfilling the Will of the Creator in every moment of every day. This is ultimately the perfection of Messiah Yeshua who only and always did what the father commanded Him.
John 7:16-18 "Yeshua answered them and said, “My doctrine is not Mine, but His who sent Me. 17 If anyone wills to do His will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is from God or whether I speak on My own authority. 18 He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him is true, and no unrighteousness is in Him."
As we enter into Purim and one month later, Pesach, let us be reminded that not only does HaShem watch every move we make, but the move that is made with kavanah is what counts.
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