Do you feel left out sometimes? Are you upset that people do not tell you everything? Do you think you should know everything? What if you are not meant to know everything? What if there are things you are prohibited from knowing? Is that okay with you? Or do you feel hurt?
In the age of social media and twenty-four-hour news agencies, we can seek information on just about anything. We get play-by-play of someone’s dinner at a local restaurant. We can follow what’s happening in warzones in real time. We know when a someone famous blows their nose.
It’s really quite silly. Do we really think we need to know all that? Why do people feel compelled to share it all? Many of us simply scroll right past the pictures of a burger and fries meal. Many have no inclination to follow what is happening elsewhere in the world on a minute-by-minute basis. We have our own troubles to deal with.
But there are people who want to know everything going on with everyone else. And if they don’t get some tidbit of information passed on to them, they feel hurt. Well, there are some amazing things we don’t know and won’t know until we have passed from this life. God purposely withholds some information from us. There are things that happen in heaven that we are not allowed to know nor repeat.
Perhaps there is a lesson for us in God’s example. Perhaps we don’t really need to share every little detail. Perhaps we should respect one another’s choice to not share. The world will not come to an end because we don’t know or if we don’t share information. Having and respecting privacy is following God’s example.
I pray we all know we cannot know everything. I pray we stop feeling hurt because we don’t know something. I pray we all respect others privacy and keep some portions of our lives private. Follow God’s example. Don’t share everything. Respect others privacy.
2 Corinthians 12:2-4 I know a person in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know; God knows. And I know that such a person—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know; God knows—was caught up into Paradise and heard things that are not to be told, that no mortal is permitted to repeat.
Marty Pressey 