My Secret
January 26, 2007
My kids and I like to “share secrets.” Elias and Risa especially. They’ll look at me and grin one of those irresistible grins and say “Daddy I wanna tell you a secret!” (I think their mother started doing this with them, and I love it.) I’ll lean in real close and their “secret” is always the same.
“I love you!”
What a rush! My kids are telling ME that they love me! In fact, I wouldn’t keep that “secret” to myself for ANYTHING! See, I’m even writing an article about it!
Some secrets, though, are hurtful. A lot of people that I work with have things in their life that they believe are unbearably “secretive.” Some have told me in the past that, “if anyone else knew about this…”, but usually they cannot finish the sentence. In reality, their secret is what is holding them back from a better life.
Sounds like sin, doesn’t it. Sin is hurtful, especially to God, but also to us. Sin is confining. It keeps us from becoming close to our Heavenly Father. Sin is isolating. We tend to believe that our sins are ours alone and that no one can help us through it.
That’s where Jesus steps in and says, “I know your secret, and ‘I love you!’”
