Wake Up, Look Up

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hello everybody thanks for listening to

wake up lookup a podcast where we

connect events happening in real time to

the Gospel of Jesus Christ I'm Zach

wrock and today's episode we're asking

are you being watched this story is an

interesting one it's like something you

would see in a movie it's about a

missing person case that happened in

Spain uh since all the way back to 2023

so in 2023 someone files a report saying

a family member is missing police began

investigating as part of their

investigation they're using Google

street views that's the Google Maps

version where you can take a look at a

particular place by seeing a view from

the street if you're not familiar with

it the way they actually do it is they

have these street view cars that have

cameras mounted on them and Google will

drive them all around in every place

that people live and they take pictures

and the most recent picture of a time a

Google street car went through that

becomes the street view picture so if

you went to my house for example and put

in my address and clicked on Google

Street View you would get the shot of

the most recent Google Street View car

that had driven through well when police

were looking at these street view

pictures of a particular area of

interest to them they were just doing it

because they didn't know the area they

were familiarizing themselves with the

geography when they noticed that in the

picture of one particular address in

question there was a man loading a human

body into a car that's right A man was

loading a human body wrapped up in

plastic in the back of a car the trunk

of a car and police recognize the man as

a person of interest in the case using

that picture they investigated that man

and his romantic partner discovering

that they had abducted the man detained

him and ultimately killed him both

people have now been charged what are

the odds of that you click on a Google

Street View picture and it just so

happens the last time a car went through

it kept captures them loading the body

into the trunks not the first time

either also in Spain there was an

Italian man who was wanted for murder

who had fled to Spain and when police

were looking at pictures of the street

view cameras for where he they thought

he might be they actually saw him in the

picture there are two lessons here one

is if you commit a crime don't go to

Spain the second lesson is that someone

is always watching uh technology makes

it so that you really aren't 100% sure

you can get away with anything and

there's a spiritual lesson in that the

Book of Proverbs says that the eyes of

the Lord are everywhere that he sees

everything that the good and the evil do

God is all places at once he sees all

things which means just like this couple

in Spain that thought they were getting

away with something just like this

Italian guy who thought he had

successfully fled from authorities none

of us really get away with anything and

I don't say that because I'm worried

you've abducted someone and are hiding

their body in your trunk or that you're

on the lamb for murder why I say that is

because each of us really feel that some

of our sin is hidden that it's a secret

that only we know but that isn't true

not because of Google Street View but

because of God God sees all he knows all

the way to deal with sin is not by

stuffing it in your trunk not by burying

it and hoping no one notices it's by

confessing it to God recognizing that he

saw what you did when you did it he

knows what you're thinking when you

think you don't need to bury it you need

to take it to him name it confess it and

be forgiven for it I wonder how many of

us are carrying anxiety and shame and

guilt because we bought into the lie

that buing sin is how you deal with it

and I wonder how many of us are simply

one prayer of confession away from true

and Lasting Freedom listen if you've

never done this I'd encourage you to

spend some time today name naming your

sin naming the things that you know you

feel guilty for and asking God not for

General forgiveness but specific

forgiveness someone is always watching

but unlike the cases in Spain that

someone who's watching stands ready to

forgive ready to cleanse and ready to

change the parts of you you thought had

to stay hidden you are being watched but

that might be the best thing that you

hear today for your spiritual condition

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