Seeing Clearly

From the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram: “A lone robber got away with cash during the robbery Tuesday of a Compass Bank in Willow Park, but a surveillance camera caught a picture of him, police said.”

They had the picture on their website. Looked like about a hundred people I’ve seen this week. Seems like every week they show some surveillance video on TV and ask folks to call if they know who the “robbers” are, or whatever crime it is they have shown in the video.

Here’s my question? Where are we supposed to go to see these videos? The Police Department? The television station?  Surely they don’t expect you to confirm who’s who from those grainy, blurred, semi-focused pictures you see on TV. Or, is this the best we can do in our technological society? If we have cameras that can read a license plate from space, surely we can get some cameras that show something recognizable in the event of a crime. Then again, maybe it’s my non-flat-screen, non-plasma, non-LCD, non-high-def TV.

It’s not unlike a lot of the stuff you hear from the pulpit in some Churches. It sounds like the Bible, but you can’t be sure because it is so unclear. It’s without focus, without clarity, without accuracy, and it leaves you wishing you could just “see clearly” what it is God had in mind when He revealed His Truth to men. At least, that is what I would like!