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I know what you did…


There are different kinds of secrets. Some are things hidden from our understanding, sometimes called the mysteries of life: How they built the pyramids, miracles, unexplained events. Then you have personal secrets — things we have done ourselves, or had done to us, or have been involved in, which we don’t want anybody to know about. Usually it is something that is not socially or morally acceptable. 

There are different kinds of personal secrets:

Cheating – Perhaps on an exam, just copying from the next person’s paper.

Lying – Like giving false information on our tax returns.

Stealing – We eat those grapes, walking down the aisle in the market, and we haven’t paid for them. That may be a stretch, but then maybe there’s a history of stealing as a teenager. Maybe it’s embezzlement.

Sexual secrets – Things like affairs, crisis pregnancies that may have ended in adoption or abortion that you haven’t told anybody about. Maybe it was sexual experiences with someone no one knows about. Molestation. Homosexuality. Addiction to pornography. Incest.

Drug addictions – This could be anything from sleeping pills to cocaine to heroin.

The list goes on.

We keep secrets for many reasons. We conceal them out of fear and shame. We fear rejection. What if — if we expose ourselves and lay ourselves bare — we are abandoned by our friends, our family, or perhaps even ridiculed by our enemies? We fear that our projected persona would become tarnished if we showed who we really are. We may feel that to be acceptable to others we must look good at all costs. Perhaps we keep secrets in a futile attempt to erase our past. 


Well, I’m going to let you in on a big secret. But only if you promise to tell everybody!

The greatest secret of all is that God knows all your deepest secrets — all the bad stuff you’ve done and feel ashamed of — and yet somehow He still manages to love you.

That’s right. He knows what you did last summer, last week and last night. Things that you work hard to ensure no one finds out. He knows them all and there’s nowhere you can hide them from Him. Yes, you are guilty and you know it.

However, He doesn’t want to condemn you. He is ready to quash all charges against you and wipe your record clean. Why would He do that?

Just ask any mother or father whose son is in jail if and why they would let their son out of jail if they could. Of course they would, because it’s their son. They will always believe that if their son is given a second chance, he will do well and not go back to the wrong life again.

That’s what God believes too. He knows all you’ve done but He loves you so much that He is ready to forgive you for all your faults and let you start again with a clean sheet.

Now that could be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Find peace within yourself. Here’s how.

  1. Admit your mistakes to God in prayer and ask Him to forgive you. 

  2. Accept His love for you by believing in Jesus Christ as the one who took your place dying for your wrongs. 
  3. And while at it, ask Him for another chance and also to help you start a new life from now on. 
  4. Then make that prayer count by acting upon it. 
  5. If your secret is affecting someone, go to that person and confess it. 
  6. Finally, never go back to your old ways again. 


You’ve got Someone who believes in you. Now, do you believe in yourself to change your life for the better?