Empathimentameter: would you like to be searched?
© 2016 by Tom Boynton (editing by Kathy Boynton)
Have you ever heard of the empathimentameter? It’s my conceptualization of a device to monitor, and capture the intentions, thoughts, beliefs, emotions, and desires of all individuals within one hundred yards of the user’s position. Easily concealed, this micro-miniature device detects, translates, and stores all such mental and spiritual activity, both conscious and subconscious.
Though this tiny machine could be incredibly powerful, it has disheartening consequences for relationships. If folks find out you’re wearing this device, they’ll quickly evacuate your presence. The empathimentameter reveals disturbing information, to its user, regarding his or her friends. It is difficult for a friendship to survive such revelation.
Would you like to volunteer to let me use the empathimentameter on you? No!? Oh well, I guessed as much!
Actually, although I’ve envisioned the features of this device, I really haven’t been able to build one. However, that doesn’t mean you’re off the hook! God’s capabilities to know your mind and heart far exceed those of my empathimentameter.
“Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.” (Hebrews 4:13)
“The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.” (Psalms 94:11)
The Psalmist of old said,
“O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.” (Psalm 139:1-4)
When God looks at our inner being, He sees our fallen nature and wicked thoughts far more clearly than we, ourselves, do. It’s because of our sinfulness that God the Father sent His beloved Son, Jesus Christ, to pay sin’s death penalty, for His people, at Calvary. The angel of the Lord had told Mary’s husband, Joseph,
“…thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.” (Matthew 1:21).
The Bible explains that each of us will be eternally assigned to one of two possible destinies.
“He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.” (John 3:36)
Toward which destiny are you heading?
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