“Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the heart: and then shall every man have praise of God.”
The message that I saw in this text was that God “will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest (make clear) the counsels of the heart.” The message is that we can hide nothing from God. Since this is eternally true, I want to share these thoughts that came to me. First, since God knows everything about us we need to watch our thoughts. We think that our thoughts are only in our minds, but God is aware of our thoughts. How can He do this? Hey, He is God! The fact is that God knows what is going on in our minds. We can lie to people, but we cannot lie to God. I must admit this gave me pause as to my own thoughts, which I trust it will do to you. David shared his thoughts on this in Psalm 139:2-3: “Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. 3. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, thou are acquainted with all my ways…” The point is that we do not have a thought that God is not aware of. We need to be careful what we think and about whom we think. Need I say, or write, more on this point? Second, since God knows everything about us, we need to watch what we say. David also spoke to this in Psalm 139:4: “For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.” We need to be careful about what we say to people, because God hears what we say to them. We also need to be careful what we say about people, because God hears that too. The person about whom we gossip might not find out what we said, but God knows what we said. If what we say about the person is true, we need to say it to them, but if it is not true, it doesn’t need to be said at all. This should give all of us pause and decide to be careful what we say to and about people. Third, since God knows everything about us, we need to be careful about what we do. There are things that we do that nobody knows that we have done, but God knows! David found this out when he was confronted by Nathan the prophet, who said to him: “Thou art the man…” Then David knew that God was aware of what he had done with Bathsheba and to her husband. Not only do we need to be careful about what we do but also about where we go. There are places that a Christian should not go. There is no need for me to name places, for you know them as well as I do. Just know that the eyes of God are on everything that you do. Doesn’t this little outline make sense? Give some thought to these things today. Bro. Joe
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