The Problem With Secrets
Over the last 15 years I have met with two fellows separately - both of them, it just so happens, called Jim. Both of them had a mighty stumble in their moral life. Their families almost broke apart, but God was merciful and they have been restored.
One day one of them said to me, "You know, ever since I was found out doing what I was doing, I went to the penitentiary to speak to the inmates, trying to lead them to Jesus Christ, and then when they were leaving the penitentiary I tried to help them how to live a transparent life.”
And he said, "My sermon to these inmates is entitled, ‘No more lying, no more cheating, no more secrets.’”
I went to breakfast with the other Jim. The two of them didn’t know each other. And I was having breakfast and he said, "You know, Luis, if I hadn’t kept secrets from my wife I wouldn’t have stumbled the way I stumbled."
And I’m passing it on to you today. Keeping secrets is not the way to walk with God.
Keeping secrets from your spouse is not the way to a victorious marriage.
The Bible says, "If we walk in the light as God is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus purifies from all sin.”
Walking in the light is the secret to a cheerful marriage. Secrets are destructive.
“Keeping secrets is not the way to walk with God.”
1 John 1:7
“But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.”