Watching

How do you feel about being watched? Do you have a smart phone? Do you ever use a credit card? Do you work on a computer? Guess what? You’re watched. Being watched can be a comforting thing. It can also be a very troubling thing. What we are doing, and who is watching makes all […]

How do you feel about being watched?

Do you have a smart phone? Do you ever use a credit card? Do you work on a computer?

Guess what? You’re watched.

Being watched can be a comforting thing. It can also be a very troubling thing. What we are doing, and who is watching makes all the difference.

A friend once made a comment to me – “Do you know how good it feels to have a friend who knows everything about you and still likes you?”

Yes, I do. And perhaps you do, too.

We have family and friends who know us pretty well and still love us.

But no one knows us as well as God. He knows every thing we have ever done and every thing we are planning to do and the intention behind everyone of them.

Knowing everything there is to know about us, He still loves us and wants us to be with Him forever. How great a love that is!

Even when we were giving ourselves to sin and rebellion against Him, He still sent His Son to pay the penalty for all of our sin.

“How great the Father’s love for us. How vast beyond all measure.” How can we ignore such love?

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