A Little Privacy Please

I miss blogging... It is a good discipline for me to post things here, so I find it profitable for me, and I enjoy hearing from both of you, my readers. It makes me really iron out some of the things that I think about. I pray that it is profitable for at least someone else too. Anyway, here we go again, with today's Lunch-Time Thought.

I hear people cry about how the government with its surveillance is an invasion of privacy. There are people that don't want our intelligence people in the US to have the ability to eavesdrop or monitor communications where they deem important, because then they might use it to watch what "I" am doing.

Well, frankly, I don't have a problem with it. I would rather have people watching what I'm doing if it means they are allowed to watch what people that want to hurt us are doing. Oh, but wait, that would mean that I would have to act appropriately so that I would not be embarrassed... is that all that bad?

Paul teaches in Ephesians 5 that I was "sometimes darkness." I did not like the light because my deeds were evil. But now, I'm exhorted to "walk as children of light" (vs. 8). He goes on to tell us not to have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, and that it is a shame to even speak of the things done of them in secret (vss. 11-12). Again, we find that bad things are associated with darkness, so that nobody finds out! Then an interesting verse:

Ephesians 5:13 But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.

Anything that makes manifest is light. Whenever my deeds are scrutinized, then they are in the light. I can't hide them. If I know that somebody is "invading my privacy" and watching my every action, then it is going to encourage me to stay clean.

Although, I suppose my philosophy is hypocritical, for I still do want to go to the bathroom in private!

Anyway, just a thought...