THEN YOUR FATHER, WHO SEES WHAT IS DONE IN SECRET, will reward you. Matthew 6:4, 6, 18
A little girl said, “It’s a sec’et (she couldn’t quite say secret)”. Young children like to have secrets with their friends, special things that others don’t know about; in this case even their mother!
Jesus began to teach the crowds and in the early chapters of Matthew’s Gospel and He warned them three times in chapter 6 not to ‘do things to be seen by men’.
6 “Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others TO BE SEEN BY THEM (Publicity seeking is a No-No) If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.”
Our motives must never be to draw attention to ourselves, but to seek God alone, away from the crowd. It must be a sec’et/secret between us and the Lord. Jesus repeated this phrase three times, firstly in regard to Giving to the needy (Big temptation to be acclaimed), in Prayer and in Fasting. He was adamant that these things must never be done for others to see or know.
12 Who, then, is the man who fears the Lord?
He will instruct him in the way chosen for him.
13 He will spend his days in prosperity,
and his descendants will inherit the land.
14 The Lord confides in those who fear him;
he makes his covenant known to them. (The SECRET of the Lord is with those who fear Him NKJV) Psalm 25
GOD HAS SECRETS which at times He wants to share. Remember the LORD shared with Abraham in Genesis 18 the reason He’d come to visit Sodom and Gomorrah. Jesus took three of the disciples up to the mountain when He met the Father and was transfigured. Many times God may have SECRET THINGS He wants to share with us, but we have to be willing. LIKE THE LITTLE CHILDREN we have to be close enough to hear HIS WHISPERS.
Does God have SECRETS for your ears alone in 2023? It would be so good to seek Him in stillness and learn what He has for you. If He doesn’t answer right away don’t give up, He’s speaking all the time. Just be patient and continue to be open for His direction.
10 BE STILL, AND KNOW that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth! Psalm 46
May God bless and keep you today.
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38 Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.” Luke 6
THE LORD IS NO ONE’S DEBTOR, HALLELUJAH.