SECRET THINGS

I wonder if we woulf say some of the things we say, entertain some of the thoughts we think, do some of the things we do if we knew someone could read our thoughts; If we were aware that every secret conversation was recorded and every hidden action written down, a log kept on every movement.

Such knowledge might make us more careful in every area, on every level, all the time. Short of paranoia, it ought to create a sense of introspection, soul searching, on a continuously. If everyone had such a notion, perhaps much wrong could be prevented. Crimes may be averted, gossip left unspoken, actions left undone.

Perhaps, anyway. Why do I make such a suggestion? Because every thief counts on the notion that he is undetected; a liar or gossip believes his crime is untracable or indiscernable. The adulterer thinks himself unnoticed; the killer believes he had covered his tracks and the pervert assumes no one knows.

May that’s why clandestine meetings take place behind closed doors, in dark, lonely places; why drugs are dealt in secret chambers, in dark and empty alley-ways; why gossip and slander occur over the back fence, or in a corner somewhere.

It’s all a coverup, so no one knows, sees, hears, suspects, guesses or intimates what is going on.

Parents may really be fooled, spouses unsuspecting, police and officials amy be misled, the gossip’s victim unknowing and the watchman may be asleep. BUT details are known. Incidents are duly noted and conversations are recorded in crystal clarity.

NO ONE ESCAPES “the wages of sin” because no sin escapes the attention of God, because ”ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out”(Numbers 32:23);

“Be not deceived; GOD IS NOT MOCKED: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall OF THE FLESH reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall OF THE SPIRIT reap life everlasting. And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season WE SHALL REAP, if we faint not” (Galatians6: 7-9)..

God never asks of any one, “What is going on?” He knows and He holds each of us accountable for our own words and actions. We will atone for them, now or we will have to account for them, later, but, they will not escape undetected. The remedy is to CONFESS them to the Lord and then to FORSAKE them in your life from now on. If we try to hide behind denial, we elude forgiveness altogether.

”If we [continually] say that we have no sin, we [continually] deceive ourselves, and the truth is not [ever] in us. If we [continually] confess our sins, he is [continually] faithful and just to [continually] forgive us our sins, and to [continually] cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:8-9).

“He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy” (Proverbs 28:13).

There is a time when all will give a face-to-face accounting of himself; “For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known. Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the lilght; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in the closets shall be proclaimed from the housetops” (Luke 12: 2-3).

God’s evaluation is complete, nothing missed. It is absolutely conclusive. What would an evaluation of your life, right now, show. Does the whole idea make you a bit nervous? If so, perhaps there is something you know you need to get right with God. Perhaps you need to come to Christ to be saved. God’s judgment is absolutely just, righteous. It is not an act of aggression of His part. It is necessary, as any discipline is. He, in His mercy waits as long as He can for you, but there is a point at which HE can no longer wait.

”Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call upon him while he is near: Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return [or come, in the first place] unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon” (Isaiah 55:6-7).

Jesus said, ”As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent” (Revelation 3:19).