What Are You Hiding?

     One principle to weight loss that all experts agree on is that you must write down what you eat; every bite! This is called journaling. When we do not write it down we play games with ourselves! We don’t count those few bites of that candy bar or we let our minds tell us that the cup of mash potatoes we ate is really one serving of a half a cup of potatoes. Not journaling what we eat is our way to hide our misbehavior from our self. In the end, it brings inner quilt or denial of what we are actually eating. What we need to remember is that our calories count whether we play games with our self and try to hide them or not! Trust me; I have many hidden calories that have made its presence on my belly.
     We do the same thing with God. We try and hide our heart or we tell our self that our sin really wasn’t that bad. Not only do we hide our sin from ourselves, we try and hide our sin from God; even when we know we really can’t hide anything from Him. Not getting real with God only brings inner guilt or denial of the seriousness of our sin. We need to remember that our sin is damaging to us whether we try and hide it or not, and it hurts our relationship with Christ. We need to confess our sin daily to Jesus and learn to live in a complete openness with Him. Hiding didn’t work well with Adam and Eve and it won’t work for us either.

Job asked the following question:

Did I hide my sin the way Adam did, or conceal my guilt behind closed doors?

Job 31:33