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ANYTHING WE SAY, THINK, OR DO CAN AND WILL BE USED AGAINST US
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, August 8, 2024 – Just a timely reminder that God sees everything. He also hears everything and knows our every thought. There’s nowhere to hide from God: He’s all-knowing, all the time.
There’s another layer of surveillance that most people don’t like to think about, let alone talk about (and I include born-again believers in the “most people” designation here). This secondary surveillance layer has some restrictions but still sees most of what you do and hears most of what you say. Your thoughts, however, are off-limits (for now). This secondary layer is the fallen entities assigned to you.
We all have them. Even born-again believers have them. Jesus had battalions of them following him around, harassing him, outing him as the Holy One of God, and generally making a nuisance of themselves trying to trip him up. Even Satan himself made occasional cameo appearances in Jesus’ earthly life. Thank God, none of them ever found so much as a speck of dirt on Jesus, but the entities following us around have a much higher success rate. That just goes with the territory of our not being Jesus.
Unlike Jesus, we all fail some of our tests and temptations. We all let a word or two slip past our lips that we shouldn’t have let slip but chose (for whatever reason) not to stop. Jesus reminded us that we’ll be accountable for those words come Judgement Day, and you wanna bet the unholy contingents trailing us are taking copious notes to be presented at that time. To believe otherwise is not to take Jesus at his word.
I thank God, my Heavenly Father, that I am under his surveillance. His constant presence through his Holy Spirit gives me comfort. I know that at any time I can talk to him and that he hears me and will answer me. I know he is right here, right now, as he is with you. This is a promise given directly to us born-again believers by Jesus. God’s Spirit is our connection between us and God and between us and Jesus, and nothing and no-one can break that connection except God. And God will only break it if we show by our words and thoughts and actions that want to break it.
May none of us ever do that.
I also thank God (or better said, I learned to thank God) for the other layer of surveillance because it keeps me on my spiritual toes. God watches over us with love, guiding us and reminding us of how we need to be. The fallen entities, on the other hand, are constantly looking for a chink in our spiritual armour, a moment of weakness that they can massage into sin and then leverage toward our fall. God permits this layer of malicious surveillance over his children (with, as I mention, some notable restrictions, such as not being able to read our thoughts or to hear our conversations with him), knowing it will make us that much more circumspect in our choice of words and actions.
That’s the theory, anyway. The practice (on our part) takes some doing to get it right.
As I mentioned at the outset, this is a reminder that we’re all under surveillance 24/7, and that while God’s surveillance is done lovingly and with good intent, the other surveillance is not. We need to be aware not only of the layers and levels of surveillance, but also in the crucial differences between them. God only should we fear (with zero exceptions), but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be aware (and wary) of what the unholy entities are up to and the kind of dirt they may or may not have on us. God doesn’t want us to be naïve about this but to understand it as a spiritual fact of life and to deal with it accordingly. A rankling conscience signifies the need for repentance, and repentance should never be delayed.
A third artificial level of near-constant surveillance has grown up over the past few decades that involves digital technology. For quality, it trails at a significant distance behind the other two surveillance layers and is more opportunistic than benevolent or malicious, but still, it’s there, and we should be aware of it.
Technology, as a tool, can never be good or evil: It simply exists. How the technology is applied determines whether its use is for good or for evil. Unfortunately, most of the technology being applied today is more the intrusive, snitching, and exploitative variety, clearly demonstrating which layer of spiritual surveillance is behind its inspiration and privacy-defying application.
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The tl;dr of this article is to be aware of the constant surveillance, but not to be paranoid about it. Cling to God and heed his advice, even if it doesn’t make sense to you at the time or is the polar opposite of what you feel like doing. Know that your prayer time with God (which should be all the time) is just between you and him and that your thoughts are also only shared with God. The constant presence of God is meant to be a comfort (Jesus promised us he would send the Comforter), so receive it as such. As for the other two layers of surveillance, be aware of them and maybe even be grateful for them, “for we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”
GOD’S SURVEILLANCE STATE
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, February 2, 2015 – You are being electronically monitored nearly everywhere you go. And if you’re not actively being monitored, the technology is within viewing, hearing and implantation range, set up and ready to roll. All it requires is to be installed and activated. Communications grids that enable instantaneous global communication also serve as tracking systems. Yet these monitoring and tracking systems, however impressive, pervasive and invasive, are nothing compared to God’s surveillance state.
God, being God, designed and engineered the first and best of all possible surveillance, protection and alarm systems. This combined system (better described as a state) is perfect. And it works without unsightly wires, cameras, microphones or other cumbersome hardware that can easily be compromised or break down. Through his state, God knows exactly where you are at all times and exactly what you’re doing and saying and seeing. Plus, as an added bonus (and one that the world’s surveillance systems designers can only dream of) – GOD ALSO KNOWS ALL YOUR THOUGHTS. There’s nothing and nowhere you can hide from God.
But wait – there’s more! God not only knows everything about you in the here and now, he also knows exactly where you’ve been and exactly what you’ve done, said, seen, and thought THROUGHOUT YOUR ENTIRE LIFE thus far.
And if you’re not sold yet on how God’s surveillance state blows the world’s surveillance systems completely out of the water, this oughtta clinch it – as incredible as it sounds, God knows everything YOU HAVE YET TO DO, SAY, SEE AND THINK!
So there you have it: God knows everything about you, past, present and future.
Let that sink in for a minute.
Most born-agains don’t spend a lot of time thinking about God’s surveillance state. That’s part of the built-in mechanism, I guess, to keep us from being paranoid about it and to allow us to exercise our free will, well, freely. And when we do think about God’s surveillance state, it isn’t with fear or reproach. We love God as our Dad and appreciate that he watches over us as a good Dad would and should. We’re glad that he knows everything about us because his intimate knowledge of us, together with his perfect justice system and his unconditional love, helps to keep us on the straight and narrow road to heaven. We also appreciate and feel safe knowing that God is protecting us all the time.
Ultimately, God created his surveillance state for our benefit. It isn’t about spying on us in order to catch us so that he can punish us; it’s about teaching, guiding and protecting us, all for the sole purpose of helping us.
The world’s surveillance systems, on the other hand, are all about the opposite. Although sold to a gullible public as being the technological equivalent of sliced bread, these systems exist for the sole purpose of intimidating and punishing us. And what are we being punished for? Committing crimes, of course – ‘crimes’ like speaking openly about what the world’s powers (who are, not surprisingly, also the initiators and supporters of this technology) are doing behind the scenes politically, financially, scientifically, and so on. How ironic, that the same Earthly powers whose technology is trained on us night and day are the very same powers that are making it a crime to know and report on what they’re really up to.
Scripture tells us about these kinds of powers – the ones that operate in secrecy where they think their dark deeds will not be known. They’ve been operating “behind the scenes” since the beginning of human history. Intensely paranoid themselves (a guilty conscience will do that to you), they want us likewise to be paranoid: It’s their natural state of being. They don’t hide their electronic snooping but instead reframe it as a benign means to enable enhanced communication, target consumer products, and protect us from the latest contrived boogey-man (like, for instance, ‘terrorists’). And if we’re not aware that they’re potentially everywhere that a camera or microphone is (i.e., your smartphone, your laptop, etc.), they’ll send agent ‘messengers’ like ‘Edward Snowden’ and give him blanket mainstream media coverage for months and months, just to make sure that you are aware that you’re being watched and listened to, indoors and out, 24/7. After all – a paranoid populace is an easily controlled populace. We can see the truth of that in how easily controlled by Satan the ultra-paranoid powers-that-be are.
Jesus says the world is under Satan except for those who are in God’s kingdom. Jesus also tells us to shout the truth from the rooftops, and that we’re not to fear those who have power over our body and possessions but not over our will. If you live in fear of the world’s punishment, you’re fearing the wrong thing. Big Brother might be watching you through your computer, but God is watching Big Brother, and God’s got your back.
God’s surveillance state is perfect. It is based on love for us and respect for our free will, and it operates solely for our benefit.
In contrast, the world’s surveillance systems are deeply flawed. They are based on disdain for us and disrespect of our rights, and they operate solely to our detriment.
Yes, the world is under Satan, but thank God we don’t have to be. Never be paranoid and never be afraid to speak the truth, regardless of the Earthly consequences. We all have to die for something; it might as well be for the truth.
A BORN-AGAIN BELIEVER 