When the doors are closed and the blinds pulled. When you did it a hundred miles away from home. You registered under another name. You're sure you've gotten away with it. The secrets. The things done in private when no one was around. Not another living soul heard or saw anything. No one knows …

No one except the only One that truly matters …

My parents used to listen to a song by Charlie Rich called, "Behind closed doors." The lyrics go something like this, "No one knows what goes on behind closed doors." I love that song, but I part ways with it on it's theology. I think sometimes we live our life like that. We discount those things done in secret.

I tell my children all the time that the very least of their problems should be what I know or don't know that they've done. They should be far more concerned about ALL that our omniscient God knows. Sometimes I tell them as a reminder to myself. I am not perfect. I still fall into that trap that the unseen or unheard things do not matter. Ultimately, God sees all. He will be the final judge. And don't kid yourself into thinking that you are flying under His radar. 

One day you will be judged. I will be judged. We all will be judged. No one will escape His judgment. Don't think just because you are not a believer that you will not be judged. Philippians 2:10 says, "that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth." Wow, that is going to be a sight to behold.

Rev 20:11 says that all those who are in Hell will be raised for judgment. Isn't that astonishing? These people are already doomed to Hell. As if that is not terrifying enough, they still will be judged. They will be judged just like we will be judged. We will be judged on the way we lived their lives. We will be judged on the things we did or did not do. We will be judged on the secrets. Everything that was hidden for so long will come into the light and be exposed.

That single truth should drop us to our knees …