There is a new project just begun, a project to record everything a person does or feels—everywhere a subject goes and everything he sees, hears, reads, says or touches.
A pretty big order, wouldn’t you think? But using camera, microphone and sensors worn by the subject, they feel certain enough about the possibility of the plan to solicit bids and award contracts too.
This will be far in the future, right?
No. Now! Now there are such plans and probably such possibilities too. But all taken together and worked out to the farthest human possibility, they will not be able to make man all-powerful, nor all-knowing, nor all-seeing! God is still in control both now and forever.
The greatest of these wonder-machines will not be able to read a mind — or intercept a single prayer — or stop one soul from believing and knowing God.
Nor can they change the love of God for His creatures. Remember John 3:1616For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16)? “God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
How can those same so-loved creatures turn away from the ever-living, ever-loving God? The answer is in the Bible: “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way, and the Lord [has] laid on Him the iniquity of us all.”
How beyond all understanding that is! To think that God, who is infinitely pure and holy, can love us — guilty, failing, sinful — and give the greatest gift in all time or eternity to redeem us from the penalty of our sins.
“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends,” but we were not even His friends! His love was even greater than that. Now He asks only that we accept and receive the pardon, redemption and everlasting joy He offers. How can we not say, “Yes, Lord”?