#exposing sin

Secret Sin Will Be Exposed

Devotional for March 30

Search me, O God, and know my heart;        test me and know my anxious thoughts.        Point out anything in me that offends you,        and lead me along the path of everlasting life. - Psalm 139:23-24

Insight

David asked God to search for sin and point it out, even to the level of testing his thoughts. This is exploratory surgery for sin. How are we to recognize sin unless God points it out? Then, when God shows us, we can repent and be forgiven.

Challenge

Make this verse your prayer. If you ask the Lord to search your heart and your thoughts, and to reveal your sin, you will be continuing on God's “path of everlasting life.”

Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her. – John 8:7

Jesus again assembled in the temple to teach the people at dawn. A crowd started to gather and Jesus sat down and began to teach the people. Yet all of a sudden a great commotion is heard, you hear some saying, “stone her” and others saying “she has done a wicked thing don’t even bring her into the temple, she…

Walaikum Assalaam Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuhu,

Don’t expose your sins even advising your brother. It’s Allah Subhanahu wa ta’ala mercy that is hidden from everyone so don’t tell to others.

Abu Hurayrah (Radi Allahu Ta’ala Anhu) said: I heard the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) say: “All of my ummah will be forgiven except those who sin openly. It is a part of sinning openly when a man does something at night, then the following morning when Allaah has concealed his sin, he says, ‘O So and so, I did such and such last night,’ when all night his Lord has concealed him and the next morning he uncovers what Allaah had concealed.” (Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 5721; Muslim, 2990).

May Allah guide us to the straight path.