What's Your Sercret?

WHAT'S YOUR SECRET

"Thou hast placed our iniquities before Thee, Our secret sins in the light of Thy Presence." Psalm 90:8

I have been having fun play the game with my little granddaughter, Emma. The game? Pop's got a secret. She runs over and smashes her ear up against my lips and I will either whisper something to her our talk loudly in her ear.

We all have secrets, and if we are honest we like to hear secrets about other people. But most likely, if we are really honest, we'd rather not have our secrets revealed, especially in the areas of secret sin.

Secret sin is really only secret in terms of others. Let me explain. Remember when Adam and Eve ate the fruit in the garden of Eden? Immediately following their sin, what did they do? They hid! They thought that they could hide from God. You know the rest of the story -- God knew exactly what they had done and where they were hiding.

We need to remember that our secret sins may be secret to others, but they are not secret to God. He knows, weighs and sees everyone of our thoughts, deeds, words and actions. Today's verse says that God has placed our iniquities before Him, and our secret sins are brought into the light of His presence. Wow.

There is great freedom when we bring secret sin into the light. Secret sin will eat us alive like a cancer. You will be living in bondage to that sin because you will always live in fear that someone will find out. It will cause you to become paranoid and always thinking, "Does he know? Does she know?"

Secret sin causes us to live a double-minded life. We are one way in front of the "right" people, but deep down we know that living a double live causes us to be in turmoil. James says a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.

On Tuesday evening, a dear lady who has served the Lord for 40 years as a missionary, came forward at the end of the service because the Holy Spirit put His finger on an area of secret sin in her life. She testified that her secret sin had her in bondage for 40 years! She came clean and confessed her sin, and you should see the joy on her face. She has walked around America's KESWICK ready to burst with joy!

What about you? Is there an area of secret sin in your life? God knows about it. He longs for you to bring it into the light. Confess it. Repent of it. And move from the bondage of Egypt into the joy of the Promised Land. You will enjoy life on the highest plane -- life the way God intended it to be. -- Bill Welte is President and CEO of America's KESWICK

God's WORD for YOU: Psalm 89-90; Proverbs 14; Romans 14

Great Quote: God will not turn away from doing you good. He will keep on doing good. He doesn't do good to His children sometimes and bad to them other times. He keeps on doing good and He never will stop doing good for ten thousand ages of ages. When things are going bad that does not mean God has stopped doing good. It means He is shifting things around to get them in place for more good, if you will go on loving Him. -- John Piper

Can't attend the services this week at KESWICK? Well you can now watch the webcast each evening at 7:00 PM. Visit our website and be blessed by our speakers. Tonight's speaker is Dr. Chris Hodges. Don't miss it: www.americaskeswick.org