Do You Have a Secret?

        There used to be a television show with the name, “I've Got A Secret.” A person who had some special kind of secret would come on the show and the panel of experts would try to guess what the secret was through a series of probing questions. Having a secret seems to make a person feel special because they know something that no one else knows. The person who has the secret knows that when the secret is revealed everyone will respond by saying, “Wow.” I recall one person who's secret was that he was a sailor sleeping on the deck of an air craft carrier , rolled over and fell into the ocean. Surely everyone would say, “Wow” when they heard that and most did. Second Corinthians 12:2-4 says, “I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.”

        The Apostle Paul had a secret and shares quite a bit about it in this passage from the Scriptures. The passage goes on until it comes to the famous 9^th verse which speaks about the sufficiency of God's grace in every area of life. The believer in the Lord Jesus Christ seems to have a secret but it is one that they really want to share with everyone that they know and meet. The secret is that they know how to get to heaven. There are some in the world who seem to want to keep it to themselves and find it difficult to share with someone else. If getting to heaven were like a maze or labyrinth, it would be good to know the secret of how to get through it. If getting to heaven were like the formula for making a hydrogen bomb, then it would be good to know just how it is made. The way to get to heaven, however, is one of the most simplest ways possible. God didn't make getting to heaven like jumping through a bunch of spiritual hoops or finding the path through a maze. We can all remember the plea of the Philippian jailer that came up to Paul and Silas and asked what he had to be in order to be saved. The answer was one of the most simple answers. He simply had to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. There were no secret pathways, or no secret codes to break, or no labyrinth to overcome. He simply had to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. How simple is that? The believer should not be going around saying that they have a secret and it is how to get to heave. The believer should be telling everyone that they know and especially sending forth the Word of God that the world may know about this wonderful salvation. We should be sharing the account of Paul and Silas and what happened on that night so many years ago. We should be sharing the experience of the Ethiopian Eunuch as he came to experience salvation. Philip didn't tell him that he had a secret but proclaimed the Lord Jesus Christ from the book of Isaiah. We may have all kinds of secrets that no one else knows about but the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ should not be one of them. Praise God today for the way of salvation and how it has been made clear in God's Word.