The man in the elevator was dressed in hunting clothes.
“Going hunting?” asked another passenger in the elevator.
“Yep,” said the hunter, and then in a confidential whisper he added, “Getting my dog into this hotel was the slickest trick I ever pulled. Nobody saw us, and the dog is up there in my room right now! Are you a hunter too?”
“Oh, no,” beamed the other fellow with his best smile. “I’m the manager of this hotel.” And the hunter was shocked and ashamed.
Dogs were not allowed in the hotel, but the hunter had managed to sneak his dog in anyway, regardless of the rules. But he gave himself away with his own tongue.
And many people today ignore God and break His laws and think they are getting away with something. They do not understand that God sees everything they do and say and even knows their secret thoughts.
What a surprise they have coming someday, for God will certainly bring them into judgment; they are not getting away with anything at all. The reason God does not do anything about it right now is because He is long-suffering toward us, “not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance” (2 Peter 3:99The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. (2 Peter 3:9)).