Secrets

There are many reasons someone keeps a secret. It could be something you know about someone, some fun secret you have between you and your children/ grandchildren, or between just your family. Sometimes we keep secrets for engagements, baby announcements, Christmas. 

Looking through Scripture, there were many times one wanted to keep a secret. But these secrets were to cover up sin.

Adam and Eve shared a secret after eating the forbidden fruit. 

Cain had a secret when he killed his brother, Abel.

Joseph’s brothers kept a secret from their father when they sold Joseph into slavery.

Peter kept a secret from people when he tried to deny Christ three times.

Ananias and Sapphira tried to keep their secret of holding back from the church. 

And many more stories of people trying to keep a secret from God. 

The thing is, God knew about every single one. There’s nothing we can say or do in secret that God doesn’t already know. He’s known since before the beginning of time what secrets we would try to keep. 

Luke 8:17 says, “For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.” 

We may think we’re hiding sin but the truth is, God is the only One that keeps a secret. There are things only God knows and only God understands that our small minds will never know. He knows EVERYTHING. And eventually those things we do in secret manifests itself, either in us, on us, or the truth comes out. He always shines Light on the truth. 

There are also things we keep secret we need to shout from the rooftops. We don’t need to keep God’s goodness a secret. We don’t need to keep His love for us a secret. We don’t need to keep the promises in His Word a secret. And we definitely don’t need to keep the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ a secret. 

We’re to tell all nations. We’re to go into the highways and hedges.

Sometimes Christians think the gospel is only good for ourselves. But Psalm 96:3 says we’re to Declare His glory to the Heathen, his wonders among all people.

People need to know that Christ is The Way, The Truth, and The Life and HE IS THE ONLY WAY!

2 Thessalonians tells us we are called by the gospel. We have a responsibility to let the secret out about our God and about what the Bible says about Him, our Hope we possess in Him, and our future in Heaven with Him.

“It is no secret what God can do

What He’s done for others, He’ll do for you

With arms wide open He will pardon you

It is no secret what God can do.”