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Today’s Bible reading plan:
Read it in a year – Acts 15-16
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Today’s Devotional
Luke 12:1-3
Jesus: Guard yourselves from the yeast that puffs up the Pharisees—hypocrisy, false appearance, trying to look better than you really are.
Nothing is covered up that won’t be discovered; nothing is hidden that won’t be exposed. Whatever a person says in the dark will be published in the light of day, and whatever a person whispers in private rooms will be broadcast from the housetops.
What do Jesus’ words mean for us today?
A couple of days ago a really incredible thing happened to me. I went to the Veterans Affairs and received a pair of tiny hearing aids. If you saw me on the street you might not even notice them. Just a tiny little plastic tube that runs into my ear from a device an inch long and a quarter inch wide behind my ear. But what a difference that tiny little device makes. I didn’t realize just how much my hearing had deteriorated over the last several years until the audiologist stuck those things in my ears and turned them on. Wow!
He turned toward his computer and started to program them and I heard the keys on his keyboard clicking. I heard my shirt sleeves rustle when I twisted in the chair. I heard someone crumple a piece of paper and throw it in the trash by the copy machine outside his office with the door closed! I heard these simple things that I hadn’t heard in a long time. What an amazing thing to have the ability to hear those sounds again after not hearing them for so long. It’s like the first time I got glasses and discovered there were leaves on the trees rather than just big globs of green.
We like to think the things we do that are a little out of sorts with what God wants us to do, we can keep out of sight or keep quiet. We think we can hide stuff from Him. We think we can muffle the sound of our indiscretions or keep our misdeeds away from Him or at least away from the knowledge of others. But Jesus’ words for our consideration today let us know we are fooling ourselves if we think that’s true.
I always wondered how in the world things whispered in private rooms could be shouted from housetops when I was little. Then I got into the military and started working with some of the equipment they had. Now some of the stuff you can buy off the shelves at Walmart or Radio Shack put the listening devices I used in the Army back in the 1970’s and 80’s to shame. I thought those were pretty good, but the things the intelligence community has now is truly incredible.
You remember the big scandal Edward Snowden started when he talked about the government’s ability to tap into any cell phone and listen in on private conversations. That technology has been around for years now. Tapping the airwaves to gather information, listen to what others have to say, record those conversations, easy stuff. Of course, Snowden talked about the ability to select conversations out of hundreds based on keywords. That’s pretty significant technology.
We’re only human, though. Imagine what God can do. If we can pick individual conversations out the air and track them. Imagine what God can do. If old technology lets me hear things I’ve not heard in decades or technology lets the government pick conversations out of the air to track potential terrorist activities aimed against the United States, is it too hard to imagine that God can track our movements, our actions, our very thoughts? Is it too hard to think the God who created us can tap into our brain and record everything we’ve ever done and hold it in storage to be released at a time and place of His choosing?
I’ve seen some incredible things happen with technology in my 62 years of life. Sixty years ago, going to the moon was just a dream. Now we’ve been there and most of the people alive today, were born after the historic even when John Armstrong set foot on that dusty surface. Going to the moon is ancient history for our children, after all, that was almost fifty years ago!
Our school aged kids have never known a world without smart phones or remote controls or televisions with that little white dot in the middle of the screen when you turned it off. They don’t know how a record player or 8-track works and might have never seen one. They don’t know a world without calculators or computers. They’ve never seen a slide-rule and certainly wouldn’t know how to use one if you gave it to them. Even 9/11 happened before our high-school freshmen were born.
So, knowing the advancement of technology in just my life, is it hard to think that God can display my life or yours for everyone to see? Pretty simple, isn’t it. Not even a magic trick anymore, is it? Jesus says everything we do in public or private will be revealed one day. It pays to remember and let God be your guide all the time.
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