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Deep and searching words in the third verse..
My open sins, my secret sins..
Can all forgiven be.
Psalm 139 comes to mind. There is nothing hidden from Almighty God. He sees it all. King David was deceived into thinking that he had gotten off after taking another man's wife. But on his confession he was forgiven but paid a heavy price as his family life was destroyed. O the perils of infidelity. How rich and free is the grace of God. But we all need to repent, confess and tell the truth. Repentance is an ongoing work. Almighty God will never compromise on his purity and Holiness.
The chorus of this hymn came to mind as I read Luke 22.63-65 in J B Phillips version, "Then the men who held Jesus made a great game of knocking him about. And they blindfolded him and asked him, "Now, prophet, guess who hit you that time! " And that was only the beginning of the way they insulted him."
This was one of my mother's favourite hymns and sung at her funeral 11 years ago---only a year after I found out I had a 'full' - not half or step sister after over 50 years of not knowing! Indeed, her secret sin as no-one in her close Christian family circle knew; my grandfather being an evangelist who lived 'by faith.'
I received your letter of June 13 and read everything. Two weeks ago I went from Penang to Na-Bang in Thailand and did some work. I did not return until yesterday. After reading your letter I must thank the Lord unceasingly. I cannot help but praise the Lord greatly for the work that He has done through you in Hong Kong! Allow me to say a few words about the meeting in Na-Bang in Thailand. I believe you would like to know about it. Two years ago a servant of the Lord went there to pioneer the work, and some were baptized. They began to break bread every Lord's Day to remember the Lord. The believers were very anxious about being raptured, and they began to wait for His coming at their meetings. In one of the Lord's Day morning meetings recently, they waited from ten o'clock until two o'clock the following afternoon. Evil spirits deceived our brothers, saying, "The rapture is coming. In a few hours you will be raptured. Close your eyes, or else you will become a Laodicean." When night came, no one went home. Instead, they groped their way in the dark from the meeting hall to the courtyard outside the hall and waited the whole night. They fasted for four meals. They were beaten by the wind and the rain at night and scorched by the sun in the day. Although eight or nine of them eventually went home throughout the time, about twenty or thirty people were left, and they did not disperse until two o'clock the following afternoon. The evil spirits, who always try to buffet us or deceive us, were indeed evil. But the Lord is victorious, and He will also preserve us (2 Thes. 3:3). Many left after this episode, and the meeting was almost abandoned. But thank the Lord for His grace. They are now learning to sing Hymns #41, #159, etc. Through the prayer of the brothers and sisters in various places, they are slowly being recovered. However, we still need the desperate prayer of all the brothers and sisters everywhere.