In 2013
it was reported that the UK has some of the most surveillance cameras per head
in the developed world. The surveillance commissioner, Tony Porter – a former
senior counter-terrorism officer – said ‘the public was complacent about
encroaching surveillance and urged public bodies, including the police, to be
more transparent about how they are increasingly using smart cameras to monitor
people’.
The British Security Industry Authority (BSIA)
estimated in 2013 there are up to 5.9 million closed-circuit television cameras
in the country, including 750,000 in “sensitive locations” such as schools,
hospitals and care homes.
President
Trump recently accused former president Barack Obama of wiretapping Trump
Tower during the US Presidential election
campaign. The ex-president has denied this.
In the
UK drones are increasingly being used by the British Military and sales of
drones to private individuals are increasing year on year.
The
question - Is our privacy going to be constantly invaded without our
permission?
These
types of headlines should raise questions. We are being observed, is our
privacy under threat?
I was fascinated to notice how much the Bible speaks about
us being observed by God. We may not aware of it but God notes our every move.
Solomon, the wise man of the Bible, states “For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and
he ponders all his paths”, Proverbs 5:21. In days long before technology
Solomon understood that God has the ability and capacity to monitor all that we
say and do. In fact it goes deeper than that; the Bible teaches that God
searches our hearts, Romans 8:27. The Bible depicts our hearts as being the
seat of our emotions and the center of our will.
The wonderful
thing is that God loves us in spite of what he knows about us. If we were
really honest most of us would not welcome God looking into our lives. I know
that I am not who I would like to be never mind what a holy God would want me
to be. In the final analysis God describes our hearts as being deceitful and
wicked, Jeremiah 17:9.
The fact that
God loves us is quite an eye opener when you consider what He sees when He looks
into our hearts. We use CCTV to monitor, control and protect society. God
observes and identifies our sin so that we will understand our need of His
forgiveness. His case against us is quite convincing but despite that God loves
us.
Finally, here
are a few verses from the Bible that I want to bring to your attention. If you
are interested read them for yourself. “For one will scarcely die for a
righteous person though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die but
God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for
us”, Romans 5:7,8.
Please take time to read some more posts. All of my blog posts aim to bring God's word, the Bible, into your world.
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