© 2014 by Tom Boynton (editing by Kathy Boynton)

We’re all being watched! Drones, geosynchronous satellites, hidden cameras, and microphones, are all watching you! Have you heard that even your secret thoughts are not private? They are monitored without your knowledge. You need not even be close to equipment of any kind! How is this possible?

Most of us, in our frenzy over the incredible invasion of privacy by ambitious government agencies, have totally ignored the one from whom nothing is hidden. King David of old said of Him, “Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off” (Psalms 139:2).

We are often thankful that those oppressive agencies of man, that seek to track our every move are, at least, unable to know our thoughts. That is actually a good thing because man tends to abuse the power and knowledge he acquires. However, God’s knowledge of us is actually far more important than man’s. Evil man can only impact the rest of our life in this body. God’s knowledge of us, however, will impact our eternal future after death. Jesus said, “… fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell” (Matthew 10:28).

When God considers your darkest secrets, what does He see? He reveals this to us through Scripture. “But the scripture hath concluded all under sin…” (Galatians 3:22). Even those things about ourselves, that we think are pretty good, God proclaims to be vile. “But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away” (Isaiah 64:6). Remember: God’s standard is absolute perfection. “For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all” (James 2:10).

God the Son, Jesus Christ, came to pay the penalty, for sin, by shedding His blood on the cross of Golgotha, for the wickedness of His people. He became the sin bearer for those who, in repentance, cast themselves upon His mercy. However, His sacrifice will do you no good unless He breathes life and repentance into your heart and you cry out to Him for forgiveness.

What will be the eternal result, to you, of God’s intense, scrutinizing surveillance?

 

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