Photo Credit: ©Getty Images/Thomas Soellner Your good name and reputation are worth it.Ī good name is more desirable than great riches to be esteemed is better than silver or gold. If you are struggling, or there are some things ‘in the dark’ in your life, do everything you can to remove them now.because eventually they will come out. The unfortunate truth is that once you have hurt or tarnished your reputation, though God can and will forgive, sometimes it’s not that easy to get your reputation back-and some never do. This is not to be judgmental, but the reason deeds in the dark can be so damaging is because it ends up hurting the cause of Christ and the message of the gospel. Think of the many who have fallen because they allowed something to dwell in the dark that they tried to hide, but eventually came out.
He was telling them if you try to live a life of hypocrisy, eventually, it will be exposed.
Let me assure you, God has no desire for you to live a life of hypocrisy-and that is why Jesus warned the disciples. The Pharisees looked the part when the cameras were rolling and the microphones were on, but once the cameras were off they were different people ‘in the dark.’ This word in the Greek means an actor or someone who is playing a role. The Pharisees had a big problem: they were hypocrites. Meanwhile, when a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were trampling on one another, Jesus began to speak first to his disciples, saying: “Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. However, I want to also give an additional context here to make the point even clearer. He really does see and hear what is done in the dark. Notice the context changes to not just what you do in the dark but even to what you say. What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the roofs. There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. The actual verse doesn’t say “what’s done in the dark,” but it goes even further. Luke 12:2-3 brings another take on this idea of what is done in the dark. Is 'What's Done in the Dark' In the Bible? Photo Credit: ©Getty Images/James Robinson Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us. What this verse really is, then, is a call that you and I should live a life filled with integrity and character, whether you are in the light or not. In reality, it is Scripture being fulfilled-and a reminder that God does see and hear what’s done in the dark. Sometimes the truth about a person comes out after they have died and if the truth is not good the world can see it as tarnishing a person’s legacy. The interesting thing about this exposure, however, is you don’t know when it will happen. What Luke and John are telling us is that whether your deeds are good or evil, light will expose them. Those who embrace the light and run towards it and those who reject the light and run away from it. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. In John’s gospel, he also reminds us of this: One of the purposes of light is to expose what is going on in the dark. When you see these two verses together you begin to understand the purpose of light and the meaning of the phrase nothing concealed will not be known.
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