A Secret Is A Terrible Thing

I want to warn you about one of Satan’s favorite schemes…secrets. A secret is a terrible thing…especially when the secret is your own sin.

When you hide a sin, keeping it “just your little secret”, what you are doing, unintentionally no doubt, is allowing Satan leverage over you. He can, and will, use that “dirty little secret” against you. “But it’s just between me and God”, “I’ll never do it again”, “It was so long ago”. Sadly, all you’re rationalizing won’t change that.

A secret sin is the equivalent of allowing Satan to put a handle in the middle of your back. Every time you try to stand up spiritually, Satan will use that sin against you. He will black-mail you. Interestingly, the name ‘Satan’ means ‘accuser’, and he is a specialist at that. “Just who do you think you are?”, “You’re not much of a Christian!”, “If people find out what you’ve done, your public humiliation will destroy you”, “How can you be so arrogant to confront them about their sin, considering what you’ve done?”

So what is the best way to get rid of a black-mailer? Pay him? That’s usually the first thing we try isn’t it? But you’ve seen the movie, he’s never satisfied, he always wants more and more, the payments never end. So, what can be done to get rid of a black-mailer? Well, obviously, get rid of the secret, confess it, expose it. When you do that, he has no more leverage over you.

That, I believe, is one reason God tells us over and over to confess our sins. Once you do, Satan cannot use your secret against you anymore. Do you have a secret sin? Find a godly brother/sister in the Lord who will give you righteous counsel and get that handle off your back!

He who covers his sins will not prosper,
But whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.
Proverbs 28:13

MichaelMcCorkle