Public Access

The five minute Friday word prompt just posted at Kate’s blog.   This week we are working with the word access.  Writing for five minutes with no editing…  🙂 GAH… I have to admit, sometimes I do go back and edit you know!  Public access is what I started thinking about so let’s see how this goes. 

Public access means different things to people, like entrance into museums, shopping malls, and the like.  To others it means information at your fingertips, or the ability to video and more.  What does it mean to those who follow Christ? 

Public Access

The public has the right to know
as so is able to ask
to see documents and to
look into things that sometimes
you’d rather they didn’t.
But the lack of privacy sometimes
is forgotten in this day and age
of “but the people have the right to know”.

One needs to be mindful when
out in public that sometimes
people think that since you are out
in public they can film you as they
wish, even if you’d rather they didn’t,
but being in the public’s eye,
whether famous or not,
sometimes means others take liberties
that they wouldn’t want taken of themselves.
And they fail to see the relevance of that.

But something we need to remember
in this day and age of public
access, and it’s incumbent lack of privacy,
is that it provides windows of opportunity
to share with others
the fact that we have faith in
a God who is FAR bigger than
anything the world presents to us.

It makes us ask the question,
how does the world see
the things we say and do,
and does it give them a
glimpse of the glory of God?
What would a snapshot or a
video of moments in your days
reveal about your relationship
with the creator of the universe?

God’s word to us

I have to admit, I don’t always do the best in the moment-to-moment aspects of my life.  I do keep trying, but so often, I just see my failure you know?   And yet God continually calls to us… give him glory in all that we do.  Let people see our faith in action! 

Colossians 3:12-17

¹² Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, ¹³ bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. ¹⁴ And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. ¹⁵ And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. ¹⁶ Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. ¹⁷ And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.