24 The sins of some men are conspicuous, going before them to judgment, but the sins of others appear later. 25 So also good works are conspicuous, and even those that are not cannot remain hidden.
Jesus taught that there is nothing secret that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not one day be brought out out into the open (Luke 8:17).
What is done in the dark cannot remain in the dark forever. No night's lie can outlast truth's steady-rising sun. No defect of character can outlast eternity.
Eventually we see a man for who he really is.
And sometimes the man is greater than we knew. Two weeks ago we said goodbye a dearly beloved man in our church. As we prepared for the funeral, another man who none of us knew came out of nowhere with a story about what our beloved friend had done to save this other man from total ruin many years before. None of us knew a thing about it. Not one to let his left hand know what his right hand was doing, our friend never told anyone about what he had done. But you can count on it: good works have a way of finding their way to light, whether in this life or the next.
It is said that our deeds will find us out. And I suppose there's two ways of reading that -- as good news or as bad, as a threat or as promise.
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