October 30, 2004
You Won't Get Away With It!
Read: Galatians 6:1-9
Our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us. —Isaiah 59:12
Bible In One Year: Jeremiah 20-21; 2 Timothy 4
A group of students at Renaissance High School in Detroit decided to cut classes to attend a rock concert in Hart Plaza. They felt they had gotten away with it, but the next day when The Detroit News appeared on the newsstand, it carried a color photo of the concert—right there on the front page. And who was in that picture? That's right—the delinquent students of Renaissance High, easily recognizable by anyone.
The Bible teaches that we cannot hide our iniquities. Oh, we may be able to cover them up for a while and even get away with them for an extended period of time. But the day will inevitably come when we must face up to them, either in this world or in the next. Paul told the Galatians, "Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap" (Galatians 6:7).
Perhaps you have some secret sin that you are hiding. If so, I urge you to confess and forsake it. Or maybe you are gradually being drawn into a situation that you know is wrong and you're tempted to pursue it, thinking you won't get caught. Then I plead with you to go no further. Your picture may not appear on the front page of a newspaper, but the Bible says you won't get away with it! —Dave Egner
Are often hid from human view,
But judgment day will bring to light
Those things that we have not made right. —D. De Haan
The seeds of wrongdoing may be sown in secret, but the crop cannot be concealed.