Under Surveillance

I was looking in the App Store for an app for my iPad so I could watch my dog while she is alone in the house and figure out how she finds her way into my purse and the trash. I ran across some apps where you can view surveillance videos from all over the world. There are cameras in offices, warehouses, parking lots and above freeways. I was thinking to myself, there's really less and less places in the world that don't have some kind of video surveillance. The strange thing is, the people watching these videos aren't a security guard in a dingy office somewhere, it's anybody who has this app on their iPad or computer!
"Coincidentally", I opened my Bible this morning to Psalm 139...
"O Lord, you examine me and know. You know when I sit down and when I get up; even from far away you understand my motives. You carefully observe me when I travel or when I lie down to rest; you are aware of everything I do. Certainly my tongue does not frame a word without you, O Lord, being thoroughly aware of it. You squeeze me in from behind and in front; you place your hand on me. Your knowledge is beyond my comprehension; it is so far beyond me, I am unable to fathom it. Where can I go to escape your Spirit: Where can I flee to escape Your presence?" (Psalm 139:1-7)
God isn't some bored voyeur sitting in front of his computer or a security guard making sure nobody is trying to steal something...He is a loving God who is very aware of us and desires a close, loving relationship with us!

No Dumb Questions

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

James 1:5-8

I am in awe of God's attitude towards us! Even though He is all-knowing, with wisdom way beyond our comprehension, He doesn't despise us when we don't know what to do in a situation and we stop to ask Him for help.

How many times have you gone to someone for help who knows more a lot more than you do and you get a cocky, condescending response with perhaps no help at all? God isn't like that!

The only questions that He has a hard time with are those that are filled with doubt.

No Condemnation

"And the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman caught in adultery, and having set her in the midst, they said to Him, "Teacher, this woman has been caught in adultery, in the very act. Now in the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women; what then do You say?" (John 8:3-5)
With no response from Jesus, the scribes and Pharisees persisted and Jesus stood up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her." And again He stooped down, and wrote on the ground. And when they heard it, they began to go out one by one, beginning with the older ones, and He was left alone, and the woman in the midst. And straightening up, Jesus said to her, "Woman, where are they? Did no one condemn you?" And she said "No one, Lord". And Jesus said, "NEITHER DO I CONDEMN YOU; GO YOUR WAY. FROM NOW ON SIN NO MORE." (John 8:7b-11)

The silence of Jesus during this whole ordeal was very intriguing to me. When the accusers can't shut up Jesus is silent. He is the ONLY one who could have rightfully condemned this woman (and myself) but He was silent.

Don't listen to the words of your accusers, listen to the peace and pardon of the Lord Jesus Christ.

"There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of like in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death." (Romans 8:1,2)