God Omnipresence and Sexual Sins

The Security Company that I worked also happens to do a lot of private investigations and camera works.

Over the years, I became fascinated of how there are all kinds of security camera, some so small that you would never notice, being the size of the hole of an electrical socket.

Imagine how many people get caught in the act of something wrong and the suprise they get when they realized that all along, they were being watched!

One of the guys once showed me a device that searched for hidden camera when you scan a suspicious wall or mirror, etc.

As a private investigator, he told me he uses it because you never know when you might be being watched.

I thought about Proverbs 5:21

For a man's ways are in full view of the LORD,
and he examines all his paths.

For most of the sins that we commit, we often commit them thinking that others won't know about it, or that no one would see us.

Isn't that even more so with sexually related sins? In fact, the context for this verse against the backdrop of the chapter (chapter 5) concerns about sexual sins and adultery. How much of these type of sins are cloaked in secrecy as if no one would know about it.

Verse twenty one is like the spy camera finder device: It reveals the fact that we are being watched, that we are watched by God

And we are being watched not in the sense of a black and white security camera from an obscure angle in some dark alley; rather, verse 21 reveals that "a man's way are in full view of God"

Further, verse twenty one also goes on to show that not only is "the Camera rolling" so to speak, but that God is watching and that the Lord is as the text states, "examining all" a man's path.

We will be held accountable for all that we have done in our lives, even our secret sins that we try to hide. There's no point in trying to lie or hide from it.

You must realize your sins as what it is: something that ultimately is against God. Its not a popular thing to say, but you will be judge by God.

However, if you truly recognize your guilt and your sins, and realize you can never be right with God for all that you have done...

There is one way you can still be saved. And that is through Jesus Christ, who took the punishment for the sins of those who place their faith in Him. Only through Christ, can God declare you righteous. Only through Christ can there be forgiveness.

In Christ, who gives us the Holy Spirit that resides in our heart, can we have the process of being cleanse on the day to day level, if we submit to Christ and the word of God.

Amen?

--Jimmy Li