When to Conceal Matters!

1 Peter 4:8 And above all things have fervent love for one another, for [ “love will cover a multitude of sins.”]

What would you do if a close friend of yours came through and confessed a GU big sin! Say fornication or masturbation or lewdness or maliciousness or adultery or prostitution or supremacism or Homosexuality!!!! or desiring to kill some one or to come up with a large plot to accuse someone!

Would you tweet about it and make fun of it? Would you display it on your whatsapp status, with a ‘lmao’ acronym or ‘smh’…

saying ‘And i thought he was holy…‘ Would you let your lips so loose and utter it to your gossip loving friends? Or even if you can hold onto a secret..that person having come clean about it—how have you helped them???

That’s why we all need Jesus..For with him is wisdom. When He settles in you, He’s partly converted into wisdom, which you’ll find so useful in such circumstances!

If a dear one to you is struggling with such…find help! Ask someone who was once there or ask someone wise! But do not completely expose your friend who confessed! Just do not let them just open up to you and walk away the same!

If you love that person, you conceal that matter and it dies with you!

If it’s a scenario… Say adultery which involves another party….The other party HAS to know about it ENVENTUALLY! Otherwise you’ll be digging two graves; One for your friend and the other for yourself!

But still, even when the other party finds out…if you are that party, please conceal it! Yes,be angry about it, throw tantrums, but let it end with you! That’s your marriage you’re saving! And if you love your spouse…you HAVE to conceal it. If you do otherwise, then you can as well ask yourself, ‘Do I really Love this Darling?’

Sin is a form of darkness! When it’s brought to light, like darkness’ constant reflex action, it’ll disapparate! This means You will die if you’re struggling with something sin-ical within you! Once you tell of it, it loses Power to condemn you and hold you hostage! Because the only power it threatens you with is fear—Fear to expose it! Check this out;

1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.

Still if you’re afraid, that means you do not know how much you are loved! What then! Should you just shout about the sin? No! Find some one to confide in! See a counsellor if that’s what you can trust, ask your parent, see a pastor, an elder…Someone wise, like I already said!

That’s you taking it to light! If you expose it to foolish men…that’s another form of darkness… They’ll gossip about it and carry it among the streets and more darkness will consume you having taken yet a different shape called—shame!

Then also, somethings are all just for you! Ever wondered why Jesus told those few people not to tell their people about what had happened to them. (This was usually when he had healed the blind, or sick)

It is because some folk like you that way! Blind, crippled etc. When good things happen to you, they might not desire the same for thee! One time, a lot of good things were happening to me…New shoes, new clothes, new gadgets, salary increment and generally I was allover the place, telling everyone about it, until this one friend said through gritted teeth, ‘Why must it be you always?’

From that day, I discovered not everyone rejoices at your blessing or progress! And that’s the lesson I want you to learn today! Peradventure I’d gone to a form of darkness, that tried to silence my gratitude and make me regret my blessings!

O well, I pray that you’ll receive grace by The Spirit of God, on when and where to conceal a matter, and when and where not to!

Grace & Peace be multiplied unto thee!