Mosquito Magnet

Psalms 69:5  “O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.”

A favorite pastime of mine, the game of hide and seek was a game that I played often in my earlier years, and I actually became very good at it. I became adept at finding new places to hide that no one would ever think to look in, and even in the spots where people may look I was able to cleverly disguise myself amongst my surroundings. 

But no matter how good I was at hiding from my friends in hide and seek, there is something that I have never been able to seem to hide from, either as a child or as an adult. Mosquitoes. Wherever I go outside at this time of year, mosquitoes will eventually follow. I can go into a shed to find something and there will be not a single one in there, but give it maybe a couple of minutes and I will soon be surrounded by those little monsters. Swat at a few, squish a few more, run across the yard like a mad man–you just cannot escape them for long before they find you once again. I have effectively become a mosquito magnet.

The reason why mosquitoes are able to find humans is because they are able to detect the carbon dioxide that is released from our breath, as well as being able to detect our body heat and even chemicals in our sweat. In fact (rather scarily) some people have been to trying to genetically alter mosquitoes in a way to make them not as attracted to humans.

But even if they are able to someday “hide” themselves from mosquitoes, there is something that they will never be able to hide, and that is trying to hide their sins from God.

Jeremiah 16:17  “For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.”

Our God knows all things. He knows everything that we do, all of our secrets, all of our actions. He knows what we have done in our past, and what we will do in our future. Nothing is hidden from His eyes.

Similar to how I try to hide from those winged insects, yet always fail, some people want to believe that they can hide their sins from God. They don’t want to believe that there are eyes on them at every single moment, that they can somehow hide what they do when they think no one is watching, but God knows all things, and nothing is his from Him.

Psalms 44:20-21  ”If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;

Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.”

On the day of judgement when each of us stands before the Lord, everyone’s actions will be revealed. Nothing will be hid from the sight of God, and there will be many afraid people that Day, I’m certain, because all of the things which they thought they could hide will be brought to light. All of those hidden sins all brought into plain view. 

Just as all of the good things, works, actions that a person does will be known as well. Whatever way a person has lived, they will be rewarded accordingly. Lived good, righteously, and Godly and they will receive the gift of life everlasting, or lived in sin and wickedness and receive a seat in the lake of fire.

Luke 8:17  “For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.”

Don’t run, don’t hide, because nothing can be hid from God. Don’t live in sin and think that you can get away with it, because it will be found out. Live your life as though someone is watching you at every moment, because Someone is.

In Christ,

Andrew