Mark 4:22
“For nothing is hidden except to be made manifest; nor is anything secret except to come to light.”
This is a verse that, for me, I always found a bit perplexing. In the economy of human behavior, we hide things so that they will not be found out. In fact, often so that they will never be found out.
But God’s economy works differently. When God hides something, it isn’t so that we will never discover it. While I haven’t nailed down this verse entirely, I hypothesize that man’s readiness is somewhere in view here.
What I mean by that is that while there is truth almost everywhere, as individuals, we’re not always ready to hear or see it. God hides things from us until we, as people on our own personal journeys with the Lord, are ready to understand them.
Every one of us is living in sin. Somehow. Some are living in sin they know about. Others are freed from some sins they once lived in and now live in sins they are yet unaware of. But God knows of these sins and has chosen not to reveal them to us yet. Why? Because we’re not ready yet.
God is gentle and patient. He has a truckload to reveal to us about ourselves and this life, but he isn’t going to dump all of it on people who don’t have the means to carry it yet.
