It’s an awesome secret, and the Lord is willing to share it with those who earnestly want to know it.
The secret of the Lord is with those who fear Him, and He will show them His covenant. Ps 25:14
It’s a secret, and a secret is a confidential matter, it’s not public knowledge. Only selected people will know it, those in whom the secret-revealer confides.
The Lord confides in those who fear him Ps 25:14 NIV
Though we are not told what this secret is, we know it has to do with his covenant.
And He will let them know His covenant and reveal to them [through His word] its [deep, inner] meaning. Ps 25:14 AMP
The secret of the Lord has to do with the revelation of the deep meaning of the Lord’s covenant with his people. Anybody can know what the covenant is in the literal sense. Here it is,
This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel after that time,” declares the Lord. “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,” declares the Lord. “For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more. Jer 31:33-34
The secret of the Lord, then, is to know this covenant in the spiritual sense. Nobody, not even the greatest theologian or Bible scholar, can know what this covenant means in the spiritual sense unless it is given to that person as a secret gift from the Lord. And who is the person the Lord will favor with the sharing of his secret?
These are the ones I look on with favor: those who are humble and contrite in spirit, and who tremble at my word. Is 66:2 NIV
But to this one I will look [graciously], to him who is humble and contrite in spirit, and who [reverently] trembles at My word and honors My commands. AMP
The man or the woman who desires with all es heart, soul, and strength an intimate relationship with God, and who studies his Word with an intense desire to do all that God commands em in it, enters a new dimension of understanding and living. As e continues in es fervent study of God’s Word, with a ‘trembling’ attitude – that is, with awe and humility – he or she begins to see new, previously hidden, meanings to the Scriptures that e reads. Gradually e begins to see the awesome purpose of es life, and this revelation of es purpose for being born becomes literally the most thrilling aspect of es daily living. While ordinary Christians seem content with going to heaven and thereafter living forever, not sure what exactly they would be doing throughout eternity, the man or woman who is humble and contrite and who trembles at God’s Word grows in excitement at the specifics of es living in the Kingdom of God. E knows exactly what happens when e dies and is resurrected – it is certainly not what most Christians believe will happen after they live again.
This, for me, is the greatest aspect of the secret of the Lord – knowing exactly what will happen to me after death, and, specifically, what I will be doing throughout eternity. You ask ten church-going Christians what their ultimate destiny is, and you will get the immediate answer, ‘living in heaven’. If you press them beyond this answer, and ask what specifically they plan to do forever and ever, their answers are vague. But to the one whom the secret of the Lord is revealed, the specificity of their destiny is their greatest thrill in living, so much so they prefer to die early than live longer on earth, as was Paul’s desire.
I long to go and be with Christ, which would be far better for me. Phil 1:23 NLT Emphasis mine
As he or she studies God’s Word, the prophecies in the Bible become alive, and e begins to see with amazement the true interpretation of the prophecies, and how they are going to be fulfilled in the coming years. And e realizes that most of the interpretations e heard from preachers and pastors of mainstream Christianity are not exactly what the Lord tells his ‘little flock’ Lk 12:32 in secret.
The next most exciting aspect of the secret of the Lord is intimacy with the Holy Spirit. As you continue to follow God with all your heart and strength, seeking to please him to the utmost that you can, you correspondingly begin to sense a new presence close to you constantly. Born-again Christians talk about being filled with the Holy Spirit, and some even talk about speaking in tongues. Maybe it’s their secret of the Lord. But I am referring to something altogether of another dimension of experience. I am sitting at the dinner table, and I sense Christ’s presence in an almost palpable manner I never did in my entire Christian life before I was given the secret of the Lord. I walk into a shop, and there is a guiding presence who leads me to the right products. And the funny things, most, if not many, people, can sense something different about my presence amidst them. Actually it is not my presence that is affecting them, but the presence that is always where I am present.
This intimacy with the Holy Spirit I am talking about…there is a time when he actually comes so close to me I could almost feel his breath over me. This happens to me always in the pre-dawn hours of the day, from around 1:30 to 3:30 in the morning. During this time the Holy Spirit literally whispers certain truths to me, as well as the answers to certain spiritual questions that had been bothering me.
I have mentioned the three most important aspects of the secret of the Lord. First, the Scriptures becoming alive to the confidant of the Lord in a manner he or she had never imagined, and in a depth no Bible scholar can reach. Second, the indescribable joy of understanding the specifics of the life after the person’s earthly sojourn. Third, a personal relationship with the Holy Spirit that takes the confidant’s breath away. But there are literally hundreds of other experiences that the person with the secret of Lord enjoys both regularly and uniquely.
Apart from the three core experiences I mentioned earlier, the secrets the Lord gives me may not be what he shares with another of his confidants. Both confidants may share many secrets in common, but I think far more are the private revelations that are exclusive to each of us. The secret my Eternal companion has told me about a particular food or drink may not be what he has told my fellow confidant about what he eats and drinks. What the Lord has shown him about a certain area of his work may not be what he has revealed to me about a particular aspect of my work. The secrets are literally amazing, astonishing, thrilling, and mindblowing!
The Lord is no respecter of person when it comes to his sharing of secrets with anyone. A believer who is ready to love and follow Christ with all es heart, soul and strength, can go down on es knees and ask God to begin to show him or her what the secret of the Lord is. If you are a hundred percent sincere in wanting to know his secret, and you ask him for it fervently and regularly, the person begins to hear the Lord’s voice. It’s almost imperceptible at first. Be still and listen, and keep asking, and keep looking for ways to love the Lord and your neighbor more (remember what Jesus said: you cannot love God without first loving your neighbor). The voice grows clearer and soon it becomes a daily, an hourly, a moment by moment, feature of your life. The voice is heard not necessarily in audible words, but in convictions, in sensations, in new understandings, in fresh perspectives, in transformed attitudes, in assurances poured out to your heart. Oh, how awesome indeed is the secret of the Lord! How blessed is he or she who is privy to it!
Before I close, l want to tell you a bit more of the secret of the Lord that I am privileged to know. I mentioned that the greatest and the most joyful aspect of the secret of the Lord relates to knowing our destiny in a specific way that only those whom the Lord has revealed this secret can know. Now, within this greatest secret about our destiny, there lies the most thrilling, explosively joyful sub-secret. I want you to discover it for yourself, if you are truly keen on growing your relationship with your Lord until he is ready to share his secrets with you. But I will give a hint of what it is. This secret within the greatest secret relates to the ‘great mystery’ that Paul refers to in Ephesians 5:32:
This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one. NLT
May the Lord show you his secret which he is showing thousands of other earnest followers of Christ around the world. The Lord has been showing me his secret for the past twenty years, from the year I gave my life to him unconditionally. May you too enter this secret life with him soon!
He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. Ps 91:1
I will give you the treasures of darkness And hidden riches of secret places, That you may know that I, the Lord, Who call you by your name, Am the God of Israel. Is 45:3
He reveals deep and secret things Dan 2:22
Surely the Lord God does nothing, Unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets. Am 3:7
Ask me and I will tell you remarkable secrets you do not know about things to come. Jer 33:3
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