Monday, January 27, 2014

Secrets

Paul wrote that he had confidence in God that God was able to keep what he had committed to him until that Day (2 Timothy 1:8-12).  "That Day" refers to the Day of Judgement.  The writer of Ecclesiastes wrote, "For God will bring every work into judgment, including the secret thing whether good or evil" (Eccl 12:14).  Paul wrote to the Romans, " In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my" (Romans 2:16).

There are things that should remain secret from men, which we have talked over with God (Hebrews 4:12-13).  There are issues we cannot solve, things we do not understand, so we commit them to God to either resolve them sometime in the future, or reveal his glory in them on the day of Judgment (Romans 14:10-14).

There are times when we need to commit something that is unresolved into God's care and leave it there.  We must then rest in him.