A letter to the one with secret sins (adapted from a sermon by Charles Spurgeon).
Dear Pretender,
You look quite nice on the outside. Your conduct is outwardly upright, amiable, generous and Christian. But you indulge in some sin which the eyes of others have not yet detected. But it is foolishness to think of harboring a secret sin. It is foolish for one, indisputable reason:
Your sin is, in fact, not a secret sin.
It is known, and shall one day be revealed—perhaps even soon. Your sin is not a secret. The eye of God has seen it, and you have sinned before the Almighty’s face. You have shut the door, drawn the curtains, and kept out the eye of the sun—and the peering eyes of others—but God’s eye pierces through the darkness. The proverbial wall you surround yourself with is as transparent as glass to the eye of the Almighty. Don’t you know that all things are naked and open to the eyes of him to whom we must give account (Heb. 4:13)?
You have no secret chamber where you can hide yourself. You have no dark cellar to conceal your soul. You can dig deep to the core of the earth, and even still you will not find enough earth to bury your sin. There is no hiding from God.
God sees you. Perhaps no eye on earth has discovered you, but God’s eyes are now looking through the clouds upon you. Renounce the foolish hope of secresy.
Secret sinner, what will become of you? Remove your mask. Let the Word examine your heart (Heb. 4:12). Let the Spirit reveal your hidden faults (Psa. 19:12). Bend your knee, go out to weep, go out to pray. God give you grace to believe and grace to repent! And oh, how sweet and pleasant the thought, that this day sinners have fled to Christ, and men have been born again to Jesus, or returned afresh to His mercies.
For there is no sin that is more precious than anything Christ Jesus has to offer.
Servant of the Lord says
February 3, 2015 at 10:00 pmThank you Jesus that our sin be exposed to You for You lovingly tell us of our imperfections so that we may draw closer to you by working on ridding ourselves of such things so one day we may be able to see You face to face.
Regina Oakes says
February 5, 2015 at 10:33 amShare button or FB is a must on this one.??? Will one be offered soon?
Chris Poblete says
February 9, 2015 at 8:37 amWe’re working on one. For now, you can paste the link in your Facebook feed.
Not Perfect says
February 6, 2015 at 7:11 amWhat people need to know is that God loves them even WHEN they sin. This knowledge has helped me more than telling me that i have sin. Everyone knows they sin. Inside they feel guilty by the conviction of the holy spirit AND the accusations of Satan. Satan is the accuser, God is the FORGIVER! This is the message that “secret sinners” which is everyone, need to hear.
Thomas Price says
June 18, 2015 at 4:47 amI’d seen myself in the reflection of The WORD, and having been merely a hearer rather than a doer, walked away forgetting what kind of man that I was.
A FORGIVEN M A N
AT once, by neglecting to forgive and forget (by His power) things in others, seeing them too(once confessed) as far as the east is from the west – I’d failed to do.