You have surely received a census card by now. We have received two, plus a visit from a census worker. I assume we will only be counted once.
The taking of a nation-wide census dates back to 1790. A decennial census is mandated by the Constitution. It only requires a head-count. Through the years many more questions were asked. Those early counts were primitive in their approach. The first census office was a temporary one. By the 1880's-1890's information gleaned covered many topics. Permanent offices were opened. As it became more complex President Teddy Roosevelt in 1902 asked the Congress to make the census office a permanent agency. Today it is a statistical "clearinghouse" of information for the Federal Government. It is probably best we do NOT know all the GOVERNMENT knows about us.
Does it bother you any to know that our government has extensive knowledge about you and all your dealings? The computer age makes those bits of information quickly available for whatever agency might need them.
If you think THEY know much about you, brace yourselves! Someone else knows much more! Even more than your mother knows or knew! (And you thought for sure she knew everything about you). Read some of what GOD knows.
"O Lord, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue, you know it completely, O Lord" Psalm 139
The Lord's census is continual. He is updating His vast info about us even before it happens. That ought to concern us far more than the simple questions of a census taker. By the way, his knowledge is 100% accurate. He is able to know what Heaven's population will be when we all, who have reservations, will go there. There will be no over-crowding. In fact, the population will be a bit smaller than our church figures estimate. "Not every one who says to me, "Lord, Lord", will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Matthew 7:21.
The big question is HOW we are counted in the BIG census. Are we citizens or aliens?
