THAT WHICH IS HIDDEN SHALL BE REVEALED
(Mat. 10, 26)
"FOR there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known."
No one sees it, thinks the burglar when in the hours of the night he breaks into a house. It is hidden by darkness.
No one sees it, think the adulterer and the adulteress when they satisfy their sinful lust. It is hidden to others. It is their secret.
No one sees it, and no one will know about it, the young man thinks when, covered by darkness, he sneaks into the saloon.
Yes, God sees it!—Yes, God! But, to be sure, He doesn't tell the neighbors about it the next morning. No, to be sure! But, nevertheless, it will be brought forward in the light of the day—all these secrets of darkness.
If that consciousness could but be vivid and strong within us—how many criminals would then keep away from the paths of evil!
And how many secrets of darkness would be revealed to God through repentant confessions—and be forgiven instead of concealed in the innermost chambers of the heart like a guilty secret—a guilty secret only to be covered by a new transgression.
"The Lord discovereth deep things out of the darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death," says Job (12, 22).