Fear God and keep his commandments…for God will bring every work into judgment, including every secret thing, whether good or evil” (Ecclesiastes 12:13-14).
The book of Ecclesiastes ends with this admonition. Solomon chose to experience the outcome of following his flesh to prove whether God’s words were true (Ecclesiastes 1:13) and suffered for it. Many people have made similar choices, believing at some level that the law of reaping and sowing will not apply to them.
God has told us numerous times in his word that our actions will be judged, both here and at the final judgment (Galatians 6:8-9; 2 Corinthians 9:6; Romans 2:4-11; 14:10-11; 1 Corinthians 3:13-15). Jesus said those things done in secret will be shouted from the mountain tops (Mathew 4:22; 10:25; Luke 12:3).
We are wise to base our behaviors as though we are living in a glass house.
