Psalm 90:8
You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light
of your presence.
Psalm 44:20
If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a
foreign God,
Psalm 44:21
Would not God have discovered it, since he knows the secrets of the
heart?
The Lord sees us from above. Whatever we are doing,
even in our most secretive style, or even just in our mind, He sees us. That’s
why it was said in Matthew 9:4 that ‘knowing their thoughts, Jesus said, “Why
do you entertain evil thoughts in your hearts?”’. God, revealed to Jesus what
those teachers of the law were thinking.
Secret sins are so dangerous especially to people who
claim themselves as Christians. You might seem fine and sinless or obedient in
the eyes of others but not in the eyes of God. That’s more shameful (Ephesians
5:12).
In Matthew 23:25-26, it was said that we should clean
the inside of the cup first before the outside. It only means that being a
Christian outside is actually meaningless if your life inside is rotten. It
won’t get you anywhere, believe me. What the Lord rewards are the things you do
in secret, to glorify him, not the things you do to show people that you are a
Christian in the surface.
Doing those secret sins are addictive. Evil practices
are addictive. However, the true children of God overcomes sin (1 John 5). We
can’t do it on our own, but God can help us. All we have to do is decide
to really leave our sinful secret life behind. It begins with your decision to
repent truthfully. True repentance means that no matter what happens, though
temptation is so strong again, you will still choose to close your eyes because
you love God more than anything else in this world. True repentance means that
you decide never to do those sins again. And if you love God more than anything
else, nothing is impossible for you.
We can never hide anything from God. If we keep on
sinning like this, it only proves that we believed for nothing because Christ
is not in us, and can never dwell in us.
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