Concealing The Things God Tells You

Concealment is also important for believers who receive revelation knowledge from God, which they are not yet ready to share with other people. Be warned, God will test you in this area.

God could reveal something seemingly amazing to you and in your eagerness to do something for God and to please other people, you open your mouth and tell other people about it. But guess what? They are not ready to receive that revelation, and because of this, they cannot understand or relate to what you are saying.

Such tests are often designed to make us see that our motives are not right: we often seek the wisdom of God so that we can use it for our own selfish purposes. If a believer is insecure they will often seek after the right things with the wrong motive.

You will also notice that you can develop an overwhelming urge to share things with other people with the expectation that they will listen to what you have to say with enthusiasm and encourage you with it.

But time and again you may find that whenever you have this expecation, you usually find that when you actually do tell people your secret - you find that you don’t get the response that you were expecting and hoping for. A lot of the time, when you tell other people things, you find that they are quick to discourage you and to cause you to reconsider.

The motive for sharing such things often comes out of a sense of inadequcy and the feeling of rejection from others. The people in your world might impress you with their confidence, charisma and anecdotes of what they do. This leads some people to feel a sense of inferiority in comparison and hence the need to achieve and to provide interesting anecdotes to people.

God has called us to be witnesses for Christ, but this does not necessarily mean that we will always have exciting anecdotes to tell, neither does it mean that we will always be living a life of luxury with all the latest cutting-edge fashions, furniture, gadgets and mod-cons.

Witnessing for Christ has a lot more to do with who you are as a person, much more than what you do or what you have. What you do and what you have usually comes as a direct consequence of who you are as a person.

I think we want to share things with other people, whether they be positive or negative, when we are in desperate need of the approval of others. We might be with people who tend to gossip about other people, at work for instance. We then proceed to join in with other people’s judgements of other people because we want to form an alliance with that group and to escape the kind of critisism they are giving other people. As the saying goes, “If you can’t beat them, join them.”

When we have the love of God in us, then we have the peace, joy and assurance that we need, and therefore, we no longer feel the need to gossip to to let other people know about the secrets that God is confiding in us.

We need the love of God so that we can know when to keep quiet about the things that God is revealing to us personally. If God gives you a message of the great things He has for you, it is your responsibility to be sensitive as to how and when you choose to share that information with other people.

Christians who live disappointing, uneventful lives are often rather scant on exciting anecdotes, so they are usually a little too keen to tell others about what God has said to them. If God tells you that you are going to travel the world extensively preaching His Word, it would be wise for you to stop and ask yourself if it is really the right time to share that information with other people.