Insightful Musings on the Scriptures
by
Raymond P. Sparre
Northwest University class of '67
Passage: Matthew 10:24-42
Focus: “There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known.” Matthew 10:26.
Without running to any commentaries to check out what the pro scholars say, I’d like to attempt my own brief commentary and suggest two approaches to this statement by Jesus.
God’s Omniscience. His surveillance system is absolutely flawless. His security camera captures and records not just movements of men, but the very “thoughts and intents of the heart.” So there is nothing that a man can do or say that will be overlooked or ignored when certain judgment day comes. No one embraces and promotes the Truth without reward. And no one embraces and promotes the lie (for example—that this Truth is not true) without consequence. Coming to think of it, I guess it boils down to just that—TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCE.
Limited revelation. God has chosen to not disclose everything to us about everything. Bible believers are not given all the answers to all the questions. But I’m convinced they have a resource for knowing a whole lot more than the person who rejects biblical revelation. The promise is that in that still-to-be-revealed-hereafter we will be changed so as to have an expanded capacity to know what we can’t know now. “Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known” (1 Cor. 13:12).
Can you imagine a more pertinent ongoing attitude and prayer than the one David prays in Psalm 19:14? “May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.”