I was in a shop the other day, looking for a particular item. I went along the shelf, searching, shifting items, reading labels and looking at them closely. For all I knew there could have been surveillance cameras recording my every move but I simply did not care.
Surveillance cameras have become a reality in our lives. Sometimes you see them staring down from a high place and surveying a whole area and at other times, you do not have any idea they are around or where they may be lurking.
They are a barometer of our attitudes and motives. Actually I was very pleased I was being watched because it meant that the sales lady finally asked if I needed help. I surely did and was grateful to her.
She was a reminder that ‘The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous; his ears are open to their cry’ and we do not mind being watched when it is for our own good.
Jesus told us that a sparrow does not fall to the ground without our Father’s knowing and even the hairs of our head are numbered. We like it because it means we are under the watchful eye of love.
But there is a reminder also that ‘The Lord sets his face against wrongdoers to cut off all memory of them from the earth.’
Being under surveillance actually tells us as much about ourselves as it tells anyone else.
Psalm 35: 15,16 and Matthew 10:29,30.
Elizabeth Price