Through the Veil: Choosing Transparency in a World of Deception

by: Micah A. Tecne

People will never understand and will never see something that is hidden. The validation of one’s thoughts will never be known unless spoken or shown. We will never see through a window with closed curtains unless we open it. In the medical world, a surgeon will never be able to know how to cure a patient until assessment and confirmatory tests and procedures are made. In this modern world, there are many improved procedures, apparatus, and other means to reveal the truth about something or someone. Lie detectors were made, background investigation systems were improved, QuickBooks and other accounting software were introduced to help reconcile incomes and expenses, CCTV cameras were installed, and other improved means to validate things and events. These innovations and inventions reveal the reality that we love knowing the truth. Who will never desire a transparent world with no vague areas and pretensions? Everyone would love to be in it, but the question is, are we living it? Are we men and women of transparency that we will be coming out clean in this world full of pretensions when checked and accounted for?
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“What you see is what you get” is a common saying. It validates the authenticity of the person or a thing. In this time full of pretensions and lies, we are challenged to be someone who can be called genuine and transparent. Knowing that the truth will always come out in time, we desire to live a life of transparency, where people will see our purest intentions in our thoughts, words, and actions. People don’t need to solve us like a mathematic problem to see our genuineness.

Every one of us will, in time, give account to someone who has authority over us. We may cover every misconduct, wrong record, lie, and pretension, but it will soon come out in time.  The skeletons in our closets will quickly be discovered in time, so we are encouraged to always be transparent, knowing the truth will always come out to the God who sees and knows everything. Nothing is hidden in His sight. Everything will be exposed no matter how great our effort is to hide. As public servants, we are encouraged to serve in transparency, knowing that each of us will give an account of ourselves to God. He reveals deep and hidden things; He knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with Him.