I'VE GOT A SECRET!

When I was a kid in (back in the Stone Age) there was a television game show called "I've Got A Secret."  You can tell it is old one, because when it was in production, there was no color television. Reality check....I am old!




It was hosted by Garry Moore (back) and had a regular panel of members on it, like
Bill Cullin, Audrey Meadows (who was married to Steve Allen), Henry Morgan, and Betsy Palmer.

The whole idea of the show was this:  a contestant would come onto the show and the panel would try to guess through a series of questions, their secret.  An example might be:   "I clean the outside windows on the Empire State Building,"  "I am the chauffeur for the President Of The United States,""I rode an unicycle across the United States", etc.  The viewers at home could either see what their secret was, (it was always written at the bottom of the screen) or not look, and play along with the panel.  They would try to ask questions such as:  "Is what you do part of your profession?"  "Are there several people involved in accomplishing what you do?", etc.  They could only ask questions that could be answered by "yes or no."

That leads me to today's thought.  We who know Christ as Saviour have a secret inside us also.  It was placed there by God and guaranteed by the deposit of the Holy Spirit in our lives.  Ephesians 1:13b-14 says "Having believed you were marked in Him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God's possession--to the praise of his glory."  (NIV) What is this secret we are guarding?  "And he made know to us the mystery of his will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times will have reached their fulfillment--to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ."  (Eph. 1:9-10, NIV)


   We who name the name of Christ, know how this world is going to end and we also know what God's ultimate purpose is:  To bring all things into subjection to Christ.  "For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God." (Rom. 8:20, NIV)  Christ came to free us and His creation.  Think of the Lord's prayer which says:  "your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven."

This world is getting crazier each day and it can sometimes give us a feeling of hopelessness.  But we have this secret inside us that should put a smile on our face, that one day it will all be made right! However, we have a privilege and responsibility to let as many people know the secret that lies within each of us!

I have a secret....let me share it with you!  Christ died for you!