We
live in a time where the leaking of
tapes and photos and conversations, revealing your most intimate,
behind-closed-doors life is all too common, and most times shoots the ‘victim’
to notoriety. Society records and
photographs everything, all the time, everywhere, and it can be shared with the
world in a matter of seconds via different forms of social media. Tabloids pay top dollar for photos, videos,
and recordings of celebrities. No place
is sacred. Then there’s damage control.
Professionals are hired to put a spin on the events, to shed a more favorable
light on their clients’ escapades.
What
if satan (your enemy) leaked YOUR tape? Or YOUR photos? Or YOUR conversations.
Or YOUR thoughts? What type of damage
control, or spin would the Holy Spirit have to put on
your escapades? Not of your past or
your ‘BC days’ (Before Christ), but of your present day,
Christian life? Would you be ashamed of
what the world would see?
Although
our life lived in front of the world is a testament to our Christianity, we
should be more concerned with what our omnipresent (everywhere at the same
time), ominiscient (having complete or unlimited knowledge, awareness, or
understanding; perceiving all things) God sees and knows.
Psalm
139:1-12 (NIV) explains it perfectly: “You
have searched me, LORD, and you know me.
You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from
afar. You discern my going out and my
lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
Before a word is on my tongue you, LORD, know it completely. You hem me in behind and before, and you lay
your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too
wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are
there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I
settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your
right hand will hold me fast. If I say, ‘Surely the darkness will hide me and
the light become night around me,’ even the darkness will not be dark to you; the
night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.”
Wow! Meditate on that for a moment. You cannot hide your innermost thoughts and
actions from the presence of God, and it is senseless to try, just ask Jonah
(Read Jonah, Chapter 1)!
So,
as we approach a new year, let’s record a new tape. One of agape love (selfless, sacrificial,
unconditional), service to our brothers and sisters, humbleness, and
righteousness (morally good, free of sin).
Let’s not only live as though the world were watching, let’s live as
though God is watching . . . because He is!
Missionary Margaret Slaughter
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