Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.

Job chapter 24, verses 13 through 17, listen to the imagery of light and darkness in these verses.

There are those who rebel against the light, who are not acquainted with its ways, and do not stay in its

paths. The murderer rises before it is light, that he may kill the poor and needy, and in the

night he is like a thief. The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight, saying

no eye will see me, and he veils his face.

In the dark, they dig through houses. By day they shut themselves up. They do not know the light.

For deep darkness is mourning to all of them, for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.

This is one of the clearest pictures in the Bible of how sin thrives in the dark,

and specifically how sin tries to hide, or better put, we try to hide sin.

And as long as it remains hidden, at least we think it's hidden, it's in the dark, then it grows.

It thrives.

So based on these verses, I just want to ask you, do you have any sin that you are trying to hide?

Any secret sin in your life that you have not confessed to God and to others who can help you

turn from that sin. We all need open, honest confession before God of sin in our lives. Like,

who are we to think we're hiding anything from God? He sees it all.

He knows it all. It is foolishness, utter foolishness to think that our sin is hidden from God.

And we need others in our lives to keep us from hidden, secret, dark sin.

We need brothers and sisters who we can be honest with in our lives about besetting sins that we struggle with,

sins that we're prone to go toward, that maybe nobody else knows about.

We need people in our lives who see our lives. And in this

way, we need to live in the light. Before God and before others doesn't mean we need to confess

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