The Secret Things Belong to the Lord Our God

This is a very important law of life that is applicable in the dispensation of the new covenant.

“But those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children . . . .” Deut. 29:29.

All sinners are very much occupied with the secret things, things they do not know, things that are uncertain; things that are possibly similar to what they are thinking, or perhaps are completely different, even to the point of being the direct opposite of what they feel. These feelings are utterly unreliable. All this is walking in darkness, and the person who does that does not know over what he is stumbling.

Suspicion is always from the evil; it is one of the worst things around. It can lead to a falling out with one another, to quarreling, to divorce, even to insanity. One branch of insanity is called persecution complex. If a person suffers from it, he can, for example, hide himself because he suspects someone of being after him, of being out to get him; he can refuse to eat food that is being served because he suspects the other person of mixing poison in the food. Suspicion is life-threatening!

Suspicious people can continue with their suspicions until they become so obsessed by them that these suspicions become almost impossible to get rid of. It can be that speaking to such people about it and explaining to them that it is altogether of the evil, is like speaking to a wall.

It doesn’t happen very often in its baser forms, but in the mundane trifles of daily life it happens quite often that people speak about things they do not know (that is, about secret things) as if they were absolutely certain. The truth is that it is, for them, completely uncertain.

What foolishness to keep talking about something that is uncertain! Then your tongue will be sure to have the effect of being an unruly evil! Make sure, by God’s grace and power, to guide it onto the narrow but extremely good way!

Elias Aslaksen