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We are as sick as our secrets
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We are as sick as our secrets

Abbie Sharpe

S E C R E T S. The hidden corners in our lives that are difficult to keep, but even more difficult to share. Secrets which are not confined to whispered confessions from a friend over dinner but which are stored in poisonous vials, harbored in a dark corner of the soul, slowly spilling and killing the heart and spirit. They come disguised as the past that promises to define your future. The mistakes that mar your name. The regrets that haunt with each look in the mirror. The memories that return with each day dawning.

Secrets weigh us down, spiraling us into a season of isolation, trapping us into a cycle of sin and more sin in order to cover up what is being hidden. Secrets tangle us in a web of shame, doubt, and uncertainty, providing temporary false shields of anonymity and protection, all the while giving the enemy easy access to unleash some serious and detrimental spiritual warfare. You see, keeping secrets allows us to deny or hide the fact there is a sin in our life. We become separated from light, shrouded in darkness. To put it mildly, our secrets simply make us sick.

Where do I find healing from my secrets? How can God use my secrets for good?

Take a look at David, a man described as one after God’s own heart. In 2 Samuel 11, David lusts after Bathsheba, another man’s wife. After luring her to his home and impregnating her, David then seeks out her husband and arranges for his murder. Talk about a huge secret to harbor! How can one recover from such sin and secrecy to become a king and a man referred to as a hero?

Psalm 32 describes the struggle King David felt while hiding his sin, his bones literally wasting away as he groaned in agony (Psalm 32:3). There were consequences to his sin and his secret was making him sick! How do we purge this sickness from our lives? How do we uproot the bitter fruit planted firmly in our soul? Repentance.

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