I Wish I'd Been a Bug on the Wall…
Would be possible to eavesdrop in heaven? I have a love/hate relationship with those little cubicles that pass for work space. There's this wall that really isn't a wall, separating one space from another. But it's impossible to keep any conversations secret from those who occupy the cubicles around you. Those fake walls are bad for keeping secrets, but great for listening in on the conversations of others. I imagine myself in heaven before the creation of the universe, around the time God is discussing his plan for rescuing us from the mess he knows we are going to make. I think Paul sometimes wished he's been a bug on the wall eavesdropping on that conversation. " …we speak of God's secret wisdom, " he writes in 1 Corinthians 2:7, " a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began ." Minus the bugs on the walls of heaven, that wonderful plan of redemption was prophesied, but remained basically a secret during ...