Secrets of A Man's Heart : Secret Sins

Hi Readers,


For our Day 1, I am proud to introduce you to our guess writer for today - my younger sister and faithful comrade in faith, Mariz. She is honestly the one who gave me an inspiration to begin this series, because she is faithfully committed to deal with our motives and secret sins. Hope that this message from her will speaks to our hearts. God bless us all!

-Madellene Kong Penaflor


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Secret Sins

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.

Secrets of A Man's Heart