“NOTHING IS HIDDEN!”

Luke 8:16-18                                                    (ESV)

“16 "No one after lighting a lamp covers it with a jar or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a stand, so that those who enter may see the light.

17 For “NOTHING IS HIDDEN” that will not be made manifest, nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light.

18 Take care then how you hear, for to the one who has, more will be given, and from the one who has not, even what he thinks that he has will be taken away."”

These words were spoken by JESUS, OUR CREATOR AND SUSTAINER.  They should not be discounted or trivialized.  It makes no difference who you think you are, a monumental potentate, or the lowest mountain man in remote jungles!  “NOTHING IS HIDDEN” translated into everyday modern English means “NOTHING IS HIDDEN”!  Breaking down NOTHING is NO THING, not anything will be HIDDEN in the end.  Even my darkest, deepest secrets will be “made manifest”, or “clear or obvious”!  

Although I have never been arrested nor imprisoned, my life has been a clear and obvious example of how NOT to live for CHRIST.  Comparing the results of what I did with what I KNEW I was supposed to do is not something that I am proud of in the least.  As a matter of fact, embarrassment is the word that comes to mind when my life is reviewed.  The Apostle Paul states in 1 Timothy 1:15 that he is the chief sinner, but he hadn’t SEEN the life that I would live!  

In my younger years there was a television show named “Unsolved Mysteries”.  There is coming a day when “NOTHING IS HIDDEN”, it will be “clear or obvious” to ALL that none of us are better than the other, that we ALL deserve hell.  The ONLY WAY we can experience redemption is to surrender to JESUS.  There is coming a day when “NOTHING IS HIDDEN”, and we had better be ready!