“Will the knowledge that our secrets can be exposed motivate us to protect the secrets of others?”

A thought by Leonard Sweet, (2012-03-13) from his book, Viral: How Social Networking Is Poised to Ignite Revival (p. 78). Random House, Inc.. Kindle Edition.

The answer I believe is, “no.” It never has stopped us before and it won’t stop us now. Then you might ask, “What do you mean? Has someone always had the ability to know my secrets?” That really seems to be the problem.

Yes there is now greater potential for Big Brother or Little Sister or whoever to listen in to our conversations. I mean if you combine video surveillance with secret listening technology that monitors cell-phone traffic, e-mail communication, and your location, which is announced by your cell-phone signal you cannot hide. And that bothers so many people. But God has always known where you are, what you are doing or saying and He even knows what you are thinking and that hasn’t changed our behavior. We still do everything we want with no thought that someone is watching.

So why does it upset us that Big Brother and Little Sister knows? It may be because even those who are supposedly Christ-follower don’t think He really matters as much as the government matters. And that fact is shown by what really matters to us. Who is President seems to matter more than that our sin can separate us from God or even that God is love. Our democracy, our freedom is more important to us than His Kingdom, than our Lord.

The truth is our secrets do matter to Him and our keeping the secrets of others also do matter to Him. Yes, our freedoms do really matter but the freedom to serve God is the freedom that this nation was initially built on. God and what He thinks and what He knows is the important issue here. He is the reason we are alive, not Big Brother or Big Sister or whoever.

Don’t forget to “Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these other things will be added unto you.” Again, What He thinks, what He knows and what He wants is what we really need to be concerned about?

So what secrets are you afraid to be exposed?

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