Unerring Accuracy

Have you ever had an X-ray that revealed a broken bone? Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845–1923) was a German mechanical engineer and physicist.

On November 8, 1895, while he was studying the phenomena of an electric current passing through an extremely low-pressure gas, he discovered a new kind of ray. Those rays became known as Röntgen rays, but he called them X-rays, a previously unknown type of radiation. He was the first recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded to him in 1901. X-rays remind us that God knows our innermost lives.

He sees what others around us can’t.

Ellen White explains, Sin may be concealed, denied, covered up from father, mother, wife, children, and associates; no one but the guilty actors may cherish the least suspicion of the wrong; but it is laid bare before the intelligences of heaven.

The darkness of the darkest night, the secrecy of all deceptive arts, is not sufficient to veil one thought from the knowledge of the Eternal... How solemn is the thought! Day after day, passing into eternity, bears its burden of records for the books of heaven. Words once spoken, deeds once done, can never be recalled.

Angels have registered both the good and the evil.

The mightiest conqueror upon the earth cannot call back the record of even a single day... As the features of the countenance are reproduced with unerring accuracy on the polished plate of the artist, so the character is faithfully delineated in the books above. Yet how little solicitude is felt concerning that record which is to meet the gaze of heavenly beings. Could the veil which separates the visible from the invisible world be swept back, and the children of men behold an angel recording every word and deed, which they must meet again in the judgment, how many words that are daily uttered would remain unspoken, how many deeds would remain undone.

The fact that God knows us in every detail should worry those with hidden agendas and relieve those who are in Christ.