Nobody else knows

"For you have trusted in your wickedness; You have said, 'No one sees me'; Your wisdom and your knowledge have warped you; And you have said in your heart, 'I am, and there is no one else besides me.' Therefore evil shall come upon you; You shall not know from where it arises. And trouble shall fall upon you; You will not be able to put it off. And desolation shall come upon you suddenly, Which you shall not know. – Isaiah 47v10-11

Sin is a great deceiver. Sin leads us to believe that we can get away with it because no one else can see us. We think we are the masters of cover up and that we can just keep going on our way because no one will ever know. In our own warped ‘wisdom and knowledge’ we think we can keep on with our sin and carry on as is.

But the problem is that our knowledge and wisdom become warped by sin. I amaze myself and am amazed at others when we see where sin leads us and how it corrupts our thinking. The issue is one of pride. We run against God’s word and we think that we can keep it quiet and sort it all out on our own while carrying on with our sin.

But trouble will come. We can’t keep it up forever. Our sin will always cause us trouble and it normally comes in a way we don’t expect it.

Let’s just learn to deal with it, shall we? Confess it, forsake it, ask God for help and move on. If we fall again we don’t wallow in our sin, we repeat the process again. And maybe again, and maybe again.

The worst thing we can do is ignore it and try to hide it.