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Acts 5-6; Psalm 121

Secrets...everyone has them.  Everyone knows their own.  Some curious people want to know everyone else's.  Private people try to hide them.  Others are a little more candid.  Secrets can be hidden for years - even from close friends and family.  But secrets never stay hidden forever.  Ask the cleanup crew for Ananias and Sapphira...

Peter...also had secrets.  They were also potentially deadly.  The only difference was that Peter's secrets had divine backing, "...if this...is of man, it will fail; but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them" (Acts 38-39).

What about your secrets?  Do your secrets have divine backing?  What would be God's response to your hidden activities?  Would he support them or thwart them?

Peter said, "We must obey God rather than men" (Acts 5:29).  

When the time comes for your secrets to be revealed, will you say with the Psalmist, "The Lord is [my] keeper...he who keeps [me] will not slumber...nor sleep" (Psalm 121:3-5)?  Or are you so foolish as to think that your secrets are hidden? Do you think, "No one will ever know"?

Kendall R. Keeler

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