“But you when you pray, enter into your closet, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret shall reward you openly” (Matthew 6:6).

Secret (Def): (Gr.) Kruptos from Krupto: To conceal, to cover or hide, Private, Inward

We all love our privacy. The question is ‘What do we do with our privacy’? What do we do in secret? Are we praying? Are we singing songs of praise to God? Are we reading the Scriptures? Are we nourishing the inward man? (cf. Romans 7:22; II Corinthians 4:16). If we are praying, singing, reading and nourishing the inward man, God sees it, for God sees in secret and the promise is, He shall reward you openly.

Solomon has written:

“God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it is evil” (Ecclesiastes 12:14).

Jesus spoke of secret things by saying:

“There is nothing hidden that shall not be manifested; neither was anything kept secret (Gr. apokruphos), but that it should come abroad” (Mark 4:22; see also Luke 8:17).

The Psalmist declared:

“You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your countenance” (Psalm 90:8).

Secret: (Def): (Heb.): Alam: To veil from sight, i.e. conceal

Our secret sins which we do out of sight, concealed from others are seen by God in the light of His countenance and shall be brought into judgment by Him. The Apostle warned:

“Some men’s sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and some men they follow after” (I Timothy 5:24).

When men of reputation for godliness are later found out to have been involved in secret sins, it is a scandal in the church of God, and many are harmed in their faith and their confidence in the ministry is shaken.

May our motto be: What I am in reputation in public before men, may I be in secret before God.

The Apostle sounded this alarm:

“But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection, lest that by any means when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway (rejected, reprobate)” (I Corinthians 9:27).

The Apostle lived in the fear of the Lord, as he expressed to the Corinthians:

“Knowing therefore, the terror (Gr. Phobos; fear) of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are made manifest to God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences” (II Corinthians 5:11).

Paul knew his secret life was open before the eyes of the Lord and he also trusted that his manner of living was made clear in the consciences of the people.

The Scriptures encourage us to dwell in our Secret Place before God and to pray and commune with Him in the inward man, in the heart, in the spirit in sweet fellowship with the Lord. How blessed we are to have been brought by the grace of God to such a place of abiding in Him. May we find His favor, blessing and reward openly for all to see, just as Jesus declared:

“He that does Truth comes to the Light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God” (John 3:21).

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