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Genesis chapter 38 verse 24.

About three months later, Judah was told,

Tamar, your daughter-in-law has been immoral.

Moreover, she is pregnant by immorality.

Genesis chapter 38 is a picture of the horror of sin and its effects.

It's a very hard chapter to read in the Bible to summarize Judah commits immorality with his daughter-in-law

and tries to cover it up, pretends like nothing has happened because he doesn't realize all the ramifications of what he's done.

In the end, it comes out what he has done

and as I read this chapter others so many things to reflect on but one

that sticks out to me right now is that you and I cannot hide sin.

Sin is never secret.

We may think sin is secret.

I may think nobody knows what I'm doing here or there. You may think nobody knows what you are thinking, desiring doing, but the reality is it's never secret. Like our sin will always ultimately be exposed.

Because we know first and foremost God knows like we can't hide anything from God. We are fools to think

he doesn't know and we always think well okay as long as nobody else knows but

oh what's most important is what

God knows, because he is our ultimate judge.

Like what others think and how others might judge us last for a moment how God judges us will last for eternity.

Like no sin is secret which is why the Bible just beckons us to confess our sins to God. It's not like we're giving

information to God when we confess sin that he doesn't already have. We're saying

God I know I've done this, I realize this, and I realize it's wrong,

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