NOTHING COVERED, NOTHING HIDDEN!

“For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed;
neither hid, that shall not be known.”
Luke 12:2
(King James Version)

Often times, secret sin is viewed as less serious than the sins everyone sees because you may think “no one knows.” What a deception! Psalm 90:8 says, “You have set our wrongdoing before You, our secret sins in the light of Your face.” Also, the bible says, “The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good” (Proverbs 15:3). Even if another person does not know, the Almighty God has an inside view and he knows all, even the thoughts, motives and intents of the heart (Hebrews 4:12).
Secret sin is especially dangerous because it adds with it the sin of hypocrisy, which is “a feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not, especially the appearance of virtue or religion.” If genuine repentance does not occur, hidden sin will usually lead to hypocrisy because we will try to keep up appearances and go through the motion of worship and service without being detected. But, this only causes guilt. Psalm 32:3 says, “When I refused to confess my sin, I was weak and miserable, and I groaned all day long.” Our conscience will continually convict us and cause internal conflict. However, if we continually ignore and defile the internal alarm, the problem continues to grow. The hypocrisy leads to self-deception because it works directly against the conscience causing it to be seared or cauterized. The conscience is silenced and the deception gets deeper. Thus, hypocrisy compounds itself, just like leaven (Luke 12:1).
God, in his mercy, gives us the opportunity to come clean and expose our own sin through sincere confession and genuine repentance. However, if that does not occur, you can be sure that sin will be dealt with by God. If you don’t deal with secret sin through genuine repentance, secret sin will deal with you! Numbers 32:23 says, “be sure your sin will find you out.”
Jesus warns his disciples that neither secret sin nor hypocrisy will be tolerated. He further states that secret sin and hypocrisy will be exposed and even whispers will be preached from the housetops (Matthew 10:27). Keeping up appearances before men who can only kill the body is futile. We should fear God and seek true repentance because the omniscient God sees all. “For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether [it be] good, or whether [it be] evil” (Ecclesiastes 12:14).
Today, come clean about the secret sins of your heart with true confession and repentance. He is faithful and just to forgive and cleanse you (I John 1:9).