Why does God watch us so closely?
God watches us closely because He knows that without His watchful eye we will stumble and goof it up. His loving concern, like a mother's for a toddler, desires that we sin not, yet He understands our human weakness. He writes these things so that we do not sin.
Les explains that Satan is constantly accusing believers before the Lord, but 1 John 2:1 gives the comforting fact: 'My little children.' Les loves that address because it makes him feel like a little child whom a mother cannot watch close enough, like a two- or three-year-old in the terrible twos. A loving mother won't let anything happen to that child, and that is how Les feels about God. God watches us so closely because He knows that without His watchful eye we will stumble and goof it up. He writes these things so that we sin not, which is His first choice, but He knows we will sin because we are human.
My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: