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Assume that everyone in a society has complete knowledge of sin, and that this society greatly hates and despises sin.

What if each one of us had a display board attached to our bodies (like pegged to our back) that listed all of our current sins and failings?...Public knowledge for everyone to see that you can't hide. For example, mine would have written on it...

So obviously, it's a good thing that's not reality. Scary. If it were, I think it might do a couple of things:
1. We might stumble less. Fear of embarrassment or public ridicule would be an effective incentive to a) be much more aware of the sins we commit and b) hopefully deter us from committing those sins. Societal acceptances and condemnations are powerful motivators -- if not, I think we'd see much more people in public picking their noses.
2. We would be much more ashamed of the broken beings we are, while at the same time having a more realistic sense of our shortcomings.
3. We would all have a greater sense of need for a Saviour.

This blog entry was motivated by a recent personal better understanding of the fact that nothing is hidden before our Lord. Nothing. As much as we justify, sugar things up, hide or deny our shortcomings, the Lord knows.

It's ironic and silly that we try to hide things from Jesus when He is the very one to whom we need to present all of our brokenness.