Garage Sale Theology

"I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that he may grant you in accord with the riches of his glory to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner self, and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the holy ones what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God."
-Ephesians 3:14-19

First of all, I wonder how many five verse sentences are in the Bible. But more importantly, I thought it was interesting that every family on earth is named after the Father. As such, we should make him proud in everything we do, public or private. When reading about online behavior, the article's advice was if you wouldn't want your grandparents to see your profile, make it private. Perhaps better advice would be to not do it at all if you don't want your grandparents to know. Although we may not think of it at the time, God knows everything, even if you never get caught (and you're going to get caught eventually anyway), so if it God would be upset by it, don't do it.

This could come into play today at our neighborhood garage sell. Most people put out some things that aren't good enough for them anymore. If it's not good enough for you, why would it be good enough for someone else. One example was one of those blinds that go in a car window to keep the sun out of a baby's eyes. The police told us those are dangerous in an accident, so we thought about selling it, but if we're getting rid of it because it's not safe enough for our kids, why would we want another family to have it (let alone pay to have it) just because they didn't know it wasn't safe like we did when we bought it. Another example was a pillow that we ended up with that had a saying that we didn't agree with and didn't want in our house. Again if we don't want it in our house, why would we want it in someone else's house? Of course, people that wanted such things could get them elsewhere, but at least we're not enabling them to do so. That makes God a little happier.