Spiritual Beauty
J.R. Miller



Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.  (1Jn 3:2)

The Hearing of the Gospel

He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.  (Mat 13:11)

Hearing with the faith to believe lies many times with the condition of our heart (Matt 13:15). This is one thing we cannot fault God, it is His desire that none perish but that all should come to repentance (2 Pet 3:9).  Sadly there can be selective hearing, not receiving the whole Gospel truth, accepting only what is convenient. This phenomenon of accepting what we desire is probably because we do not like to be challenged. If our standards or beliefs are challenged and requires a complete change of our minds an automatic wall of resistance appears.

From the parable of the sower it warns us of only a quarter of listeners will be saved to live fruitful Christian lives. Half the listeners received the Gospel but were disqualified; listening but not hearing. Hearing goes very deep into the spirit and birthing forth faith (Rom 10:17). It is purely the grace of God that we been given all the opportunity to hear the mysteries of salvation and of the Kingdom of God. Mysteries are meant to be hidden from those who are hard at hearing. The test of whether we have heard clearly is when testing of what our faith is grounded on and on what affections lies deep within our hearts (Matt 21:21, 22).

We have to deal with two issues that can potentially disqualify us. Firstly, have we been ‘rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving’ (Col 2:7)? The abounding fruit is practicing the will of God (1 Thess 5:18).  Secondly, have we laid down our affections down, whatever that hinders our love for the Savior and love for the brethren (1 John 3:15, 16)?

Have we truly heard the Gospel? Check for evidence and demonstration of the righteous fruit and affections in our daily living. 

A Secret of Victorious Living 
J.R. Miller

Grace Denial 
Octavius Winslow

True Fellowship

…… therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.  (1Jn 3:1)

Fellowship, as defined in Scripture differs from the world’s perspective. It signifies communion, a giving and receiving in the realm of the spirit. It is union to the God-head through Jesus Christ and partaking of the supernatural life, not sharing any form of human commonality. For us it requires death of the soulish and the fleshly to trod down this road of fellowship with the Father and with the Son (1Jn 1:3). The cost is high and pure, not to be cheapened by compounding it with filth of flesh and spirit (2 Cor 7:1).

Are we known of God or known by the world? The ‘know’ that the apostle stated is whether there has been a perception, understanding, recognizing through personal experience. How can we who have a personal experience with Jesus Christ bear ourselves to the world that rejects His sovereign Lordship? ‘Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God?’ (Jas 4:4). Never take fellowshipping as a casual Christian activity wasted over conversations that doesn’t edify nor glorify God. It has to be spirit communicating with spirit, resulting in growing in greater Christ likeness, lesser of self and loving the brethren at the level of daily mundane life in the most practical manner. It begins in the realm of the spirit and worked out in the physical, never the other way around.

Presumptuous Sin

……. hath God said…..?  (Gen 3:1)

Whenever we reason over what God has already said, it speaks of the condition of our heart that is bent on disobedience given the slightest excuse. Believing God is not to be grappled in the mind but begins in the heart (Rom 10:10). Once we have settled to believe God in our heart, all other affections should become dead. Death is where the voice of the world, sin, evil, etc becomes incoherent but only what God has said becomes clear. Perhaps the reason why the love of God has difficulty to be completed in us (1 John 2:5), is because there is lack of single heartedness toward Jesus Christ.

Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.  (Psa 19:12)

Don’t underestimate the power of the deceitful heart that can lead us to gross error (Jer 17:9). Being presumptuous is to take the position that we have the boldness and ability to take charge. Keep ourselves yoked to Christ in humility and ‘be sober, be vigilant’ (1 Pet 5:8). Don’t put ourselves in the place where there is a room for questioning. If we do, we can become presumptuous and another insidious power dominates us, leaving us unpreserved to the end (Psa 19:13, Prov 30:5).

The Principle of Sin
Oswald Chambers

From the book, "If Thou Wilt be Perfect."

Truth in Acknowledging the Messiah

Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? ….  (1John 2:22)

Fact is a knowing that something exists. Truth is when fact becomes a perpetual reality, transcending the realm of the intellect of the soul, piercing into the spirit of a man. It is the shedding of God’s light at the spirit level that it becomes revelation. It is one thing to intellectually grasp that Jesus is the Christ or Messiah, He is eternal life (1 John 1:2) to all who have the revelation. Truth has a life that brings the things of the Spirit into the soul which is subsequently evident in practice (1 John 1:6).

Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.  (2Ki 18:21)

The very moment we receive the revelation that Jesus is the Messiah, immediately all other forms of salvation or help or deliverance become dead to us. Though there may be temptations to seek others, the Holy Spirit will remind us to run to the God of our Salvation. Any other means would be abominable. There is only One Savior, only One Messiah. Not judging the outcome but faithful to endure regardless of outward circumstances and what our eyes behold. We will find out that Jesus our Messiah is faithful and cannot deny Himself (2 Tim 2:13).If we mentally accept that Jesus is Messiah, and our response shows otherwise, could we be living in a lie?

Natural Outworking

Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.  (1Cor 10:31)

The outworking of our faith is from what God has built in not the reverse (Php 2:13). We don’t have to be overly conscious of the outworking, if we are than there is a possibility that we are trying to please God. If we continually abide in Christ we are already in the place of God’s pleasure. It pleases the Father to work into us and out of that building on that foundation (Jude 1:20), which He has laid comes forth actions that will glory God. Often we may not be aware of it because in that abiding in Christ, self consciousness is diminished…’because as He is, so are we in this world’ (1 John 4:17). How else Jesus Christ is leaving His handprints in this crooked and perverse generation unless it’s through the Church, His body.

For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.  (John 12:8)

There is a family that is currently in financial need and the brethren have been sharing their evening meals with them. One day there was a cut in the water supply hence no cooking could have been done that day. The mother was at a lost as to how to supply the family with food and purchasing KFC was the best option at that time. Later that evening the water supply was restored and the mother eventually cooked dinner for her family. Later a message came from the father that KFC was an answer to his children’s request for the week and couldn’t do so due to their financial situation. God had to intervene to shut the water supply in order to answer a child’s request. Who else could have engineered the whole situation? The Father’s heart is toward the poor, the fatherless and the widows. God allows poverty for His body to demonstrate mercy (Mic 6:8), in order to test if indeed we are walking in the Light (1 John 2:10). Don’t consider great exploits if we can’t even fulfill daily needs of others.

Purpose of Anointing

But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, …….., and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.  (1Jn 2:27)

The Apostles looks at it as ability in relationship that brings us into the possibility of abiding in the Son of God, not to be sort after for the purpose of having the ability to perform a task. It is the oneness with Christ that we have His mind to do His task on earth. Simon mistaken the power for outworking, in reality the outworking comes out of our abiding in Christ (Acts 8:18).

.......The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.  (John 5:19)

A servant is not greater than the Master. Jesus preached, performed miracles, gave everlasting life as well as laying down His life was out of His abiding in the Father. If it is for works that we seek anointing we can ask amiss (Jam 4:3), Jesus did because He saw the Father doing. In that stature, the doing will always glorify the Greater. Check our hearts, who is the focus. Do we behold Jesus (John 14:9)? If we do, we will do His greater works (John 14:12).

The Distraction of Contempt 
Oswald Chambers


Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us! For we are exceedingly filled with contempt (Psalm 123:3)

What we must beware of is not damage to our belief in God but damage to our Christian disposition or state of mind. “Take heed to your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously” (Malachi 2:16). Our state of mind is powerful in its effects. It can be the enemy that penetrates right into our soul and distracts our mind from God. There are certain attitudes we should never dare to indulge. If we do, we will find they have distracted us from faith in God. Until we get back into a quiet mood before Him, our faith is of no value, and our confidence in the flesh and in human ingenuity is what rules our lives. 


Beware of “the cares of this world . . .” (Mark 4:19). They are the very things that produce the wrong attitudes in our soul. It is incredible what enormous power there is in simple things to distract our attention away from God. Refuse to be swamped by “the cares of this world.” 


Another thing that distracts us is our passion for vindication. St. Augustine prayed, “O Lord, deliver me from this lust of always vindicating myself.” Such a need for constant vindication destroys our soul’s faith in God. Don’t say, “I must explain myself,” or, “I must get people to understand.” Our Lord never explained anything— He left the misunderstandings or misconceptions of others to correct themselves. 


When we discern that other people are not growing spiritually and allow that discernment to turn to criticism, we block our fellowship with God. God never gives us discernment so that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.

Calmed and Quieted Soul

Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.  (Psa 131:2)

‘Surely’ is a certainty and being in a state of doubtlessness that we can attain as God’s child. It is not to be considered waveringly but steadfastly. Our certainty is not in ourselves but because we are ‘rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith’ (Col 2:7), abounding with thanksgiving because it is a done deal. There isn’t a need to ask if we can; faith is bringing into substance that we can, in Christ. If we say we will ‘try’, then it is of the flesh and not of the Spirit (Eze 36:27). There is a cause because the Spirit is effectual.

Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.  (Php 4:9)

We will subconsciously enter into the Shalom of God. There is an overwhelming benefit of experiencing the Peace of God as well as having the God of Peace being with us. We become what we feed our minds (Phil 4:8). Fill our minds with truth, honesty, justice, purity, loveliness, good report, virtuous and praise worthiness. Regurgitate on these things. The only things is of any worth has the essence of Christ in them. Be utterly dependent on Christ (1 Cor 2:16) and we will know how to deal with the rest (Matt 6:33). Defeat begins in the mind; we have the God given privilege as sons to be overcomers.

Consistency
Oswald Chambers


Beware of being obsessed with consistency to your own convictions instead of being devoted to God. If you are a saint and say, “I will never do this or that,” in all probability this will be exactly what God will require of you. There was never a more inconsistent being on this earth than our Lord, but He was never inconsistent with His Father. The important consistency in a saint is not to a principle but to the divine life. It is the divine life that continually makes more and more discoveries about the divine mind. It is easier to be an excessive fanatic than it is to be consistently faithful, because God causes an amazing humbling of our religious conceit when we are faithful to Him.

Indecision in Religion 
Asahel Nettleton

 

The State of the Church and Coming Judgment (Excerpt)
A.W. Tozer

 

True Knowledge is in Keeping His Commandments

He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.  (1John 2:4)

  

Liars face a terrible end in judgment (Rev 21:8). What is worst than being deceived is self-deception. Our glorious destiny is independent on if we know Him, but rather if He knows us (Matt 7:23). There is so much emphasis on the love of God in the antinomian gospel, however it is in keeping His commandments that the love of God is made complete and full in us (1 John 2:5).

  

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.  (John 14:6)

The way to salvation is only one; the path of salvation is based on truth. Without truth we are liars and sons of the father of it (John 8:44). Therefore we can be either abide in truth or abide in lies. Truth is precise, not gray but black or white. Truth is a sword that divides that which is self centered and that which is of the Spirit. Truth stands the test of time. Truth is neither a philosophy nor ideology. Truth brings life. Truth is Jesus Christ.

To obey is to love God. We do not obey to be loved by God. Obedience is bringing into reality His promises. Not obeying so that we can receive His promises. Obedience brings us into great knowledge. We do not know we if can walk until we start walking (John 5:9). God never contradicts, He reveals Himself through truth. Practice the truth and we will receive greater revelational light (1 John 1:6).

Deterrence to Fulfilling Our Spiritual Destiny

Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.  (Act 21:13)

Reality cannot be the reason not to continue on in faith. Faith is beyond seeing the natural, but the ability to behold our spiritual destiny and whole heartedness to substantiate the things God has laid hold of us. Don’t let situations, fear, danger and uncertainty deter us. If we are not willing to lay our lives down and rise to the occasion in fulfilling the purposes of God in and through us, He will not fail, He will raise another (Est 4:14). Natural reality can never stop God from intervening in human affairs for His glory, it is whether we are willing to avail ourselves to be vessels of honor for His divine purposes. Following Jesus would mean heartaches to loved ones and ourselves, don't let these be the enemy in fulfilling our spiritual destiny.

True Measure of Life

We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.  (1 John 3:14)

Don’t measure existence of the life of Christ in any fellowship by the amount of spiritual activity. It is not how much faith that bears witness of the disciple but how much love toward each other (John 13:35). Even faith requires action. We love one another not because we agree in a matter or share common interests. We love because we are brethren. To love the brethren is to over look each other faults and shortcomings, ‘love covereth all sins’ not some sins (Prov 10:12). This is the cross we ought to bear. This is the walk we ought to walk after the footsteps of the Master (1 John 2:6).

We want God to love us. Selfishness is when we don’t share the love of God with others, especially of the household of God. We know the love of God because Jesus laid down His life for us, similarly the outworking of the love of God toward the brethren (1 John 3:16).

Christian love is practical not just talk (1 John 3:18). Don’t just say that we love one another, show it. We know that the love of God dwells in us by ensuring our brethren have what we have.  Sin is shutting up compassion and selfishly hoarding for ourselves. The true measure of Christ life in us is when we love unconditionally, not wanting anything in return. God gave, so do we in like manner.

Integrity

I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.  (Psa 101:2)

A disciple is not passive otherwise we would have been created as mindless automatons. Work out the little the Lord has built in and He will work in more of Christ nature, lest spiritual laziness and passivity set in. A son of God has to’ will to do’ (John 7:17), don’t say ‘I will do as He moves me’. God will never move us; He moves and the sheep follows.

Integrity is to adhere to God’s moral principles which are evidenced by our behavior in light of public eyes or in secret. It soulish to do the honorable in public to garner honor from man (Matt 6:4, 6, 18), seek God’s approval by carrying the same moral stature in private. It is in the private when our thoughts and actions will be tested and judged. Integrity need to be demonstrated consistently in the light of man’s eyes and in the light of God’s eyes.

The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.  (Prov 11:3)

A child of God who lives in integrity in God’s light has the reward of a pure conscience toward the Lord and others (1 John 1:7). There is unwavering security even in the midst of external storm. There is a peace that surpasses human understanding. Steadfastness because one is anchored in the Savior and the pathway of our pilgrimage is very clear with a certain glorious end. Conversely those who transgress against the rule of integrity will bring about self destruction.

Lust Kills Compassion

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.  (1Jn 2:16)

What massive consumerism did was to create a superficial 'need' for things. Things have become so part of us that has defined our culture of narcissism. Fellow human suffering and especially that many are travelling the broad way to destruction is no longer a cause for concern as long as 'I' can keep my toys and play them.

But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?  (1Jn 3:17)

Not having compassion to the poor and needy is blindness. It is looking at gratifying self that is the cause for blindness. ‘I’ want to be loved, ‘I’ need attention, ‘I’……there is a grave concern that ‘I’ is satisfied. This is a big deception because the ‘I’ can never find its fulfillment (Prov 30:15). How can God pour His love to this generation? It is only to the cross bearers who deny lust of things and undeniably choose simplicity which is in Christ (2 Cor 11:3).

Fearing God

But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.  (Luke 12:5)

The warning was not an apostolic or prophetic one, but from the Lord Jesus Himself. Fearing God is not to be misunderstood lest it can bring about an unrealistic form that could lead to the pride of pseudo spirituality. For some rejecting what God commanded because its misinterpretation resulting in cowering and coldness, void of lovingkindness. Without the fear of God, there is a danger of subconsciously denying the reality of hell, likewise also denying the existence of Kingdom of God. This denial is to say that God is not just, hence claiming blasphemously that God doesn’t judge.

What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?  (Psa 34:12)

On the contrary, fearing God is demonstrated in the most practical way (Psa 34:11-14). This way that the Lord has paved for us is always for good not for evil (Psa 34:12). It benefits us, putting us in the light of having more to gain. Resolve in prayer to fear God, not being double hearted about it (Psa 86:11). Fearing God benefits others and brings the Shalom of God into relationships (Eph 5:21). Wholeness in relationship will flourish with the fear of God. This peace will be the outworking of our lives to place us in the glorious position to be called a child of God in His Kingdom (Matt 5:9, Rom 14:17).

The Uncritical Temper
Oswald Chambers

Love Where You Are Not Respected 
Oswald Chambers

 

Hardening Our Hearts

And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts….  (Mar 3:5)

More often than not the cause of Jesus grief wasn’t among the unreligious, but among those who have knowledge of the Word and even His disciples. Not among the ignorant, but among the informed. The opposition Jesus had was almost always in everyday circumstances. God will confront us in the daily working out of our lives to see if the knowledge and mountain top experiences lasts and deeply rooted. Spirituality requires an expression in the natural, never to be experienced and left behind at the mountain top experiences.

Few like confrontation, especially if truth is directed toward us. Never say that we will readily believe everything the Lord and His Word says. There is a danger in thinking that believing is a result in knowledge and spiritual experiences. Belief becomes reality when the knowledge is worked out in daily application.

Jesus will come to challenge everything we believe in to see if we believe in Him. Is it prayer, the Word, good works versus Christ and Christ alone? Is He our exceedingly great reward? He will confront us because He is a jealous God. Confronting us to reveal what is our truest affections.

Hardening our hearts is to be unbelieving (Matt 6:14). He will come to right us, are we willing to receive His correction?  Continue in the place of meekness and humility so that when the Holy Spirit brings light into areas of our darkness, pride or poor character which we may never know existed, yielding to allow the Potter to do all that is necessary to transform and conform to His image. Though painful, sons of God are always ready to expose all of their insides to God’s refining fire.

The Night of Weeping 
Horatius Bonar

 

The Cross, True Discipleship

…….. let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him. (Mat 27:42)

The cross is a stumbling block and foolishness; firstly it is an open display of meekness and lowliness void of worldly pomp and glory, secondly, human understanding and reasoning resist the cross (1 Cor 1:23). The cross can be averted on these two counts. It is easy to reconcile that the cross of Christ is the entrance for our salvation, however do we believe Jesus when He says ‘the disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord’ (Matt 10:24)? Acceptance of salvation of the cross of Christ is palatable, simultaneously the pilgrims progress requires a cross bearing life.

In denying this narrow and difficult way (Matt 7:14) the devil will be our insurmountable nemesis. If the choice is to follow the cross bearing way of the Master, the devil would not be a problem (Rom 16:20). Very quickly there will be a discovery that self is the greater enemy of the salvation of our soul (Matt 16:22-26). Peter knew the cost of discipleship but desired to avert the way (as we often do), hence daring to rebuke his Lord. Denying the cross is satanic in nature which goes against every grain of the will of God (Matt 16:23).

In order for the manifestation of life of the Son of God, the old man has to be put to death. Remove the filth that the Holy can be poured in. The old man and its lustful appetites wars against Christ nature, how can the two mix and find its homogeneous form? The Christian life is black or white, not gray.

Salvation is free. The cost of discipleship is high. It will cost us everything in exchange for son-ship (Php 3:8).

The Difficult Way to Life / The Broad Way to Destruction 
Matthew Henry

 

Cross Evasion: The Subterfuge of our Modern Christianity
Art Katz

God’s actual visitation, the coming of Himself, and the form that it took, and the way that it was culminated in His crucifixion, death, burial  and resurrection has got to be the single greatest epochal event in the whole history of the human race.  I marvel that the nations are completely oblivious to that fact, and that the Jewish people themselves have found a way to remove the event from their own consideration.  But even in Christendom the event has become modified, sentimentalised, trivialised, cheapened, and rendered almost into a “non-event.”  There are unplumbed meanings in the cross that wait to be unearthed, or we will remain participants with those who seek to modify and remove the cross of its content and power—even in our ignorance. 

“Nothing reveals the falsity of man more than the evasion, the side-stepping of man from God, and from the crucified Christ” (See footnote).  In other words, by side-stepping the crucified Christ, we reveal that man is, in his very nature, a liar, phoney, false, and flees from truth.  What shall I say about my own Jewish people?  The event took place in our history; our Messiah, in our Jerusalem; and yet we rejected Him, and made of His life a non-event, as if Jesus was some kind of pitiful Presumer who ran afoul of the political authorities and had to suffer their judgments.  We missed the entire truth of His coming, as the very Son of God, as Sin-Bearer, fulfilling a necessary sacrifice that no animal could provide, and was Himself both the sacrifice and the High Priest—and we suffered the consequences for our dismissal of Him.

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Spiritual Journey

They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing of thy righteousness. (Psa 145:7)

What are the most important milestones of our Christian pilgrimage? It is easy to recall what God has done 'for' me, but have we considered and able to give praise to our gracious Savior for what great things the Lord has done 'in' me? His benefits are tremendous for He commands His loving kindness over us (Psa 42:8), do we recall His faithfulness in the evening years (Psa 92:2)?

.........few and evil have the days of the years of my life been........(Gen 47:9)

What has God done in Jacob’s life to transform him to Israel? He was a man who lived for himself, selfishness and deceitful. His respond to the beginning of God building into him was to build a monument out of his pillow (Gen 28:18). At his return to the same starting point he built an altar (Gen 35:3, 7). First it was a vision of the Lord’s lovingkindness to preserve him, the latter an altar to recall of His faithfulness. First it was a monument of haphazard and shabby from what he had used and the latter an altar of worship. The Lord had stripped him of self confidence, then worship out of deepest recesses of what God has built into Him poured forth (Php 3:3). Out of such a life comes an ability to bless others and not self (Gen 47:10) because he has been dealt with by the Blessor and taken on His imange. He saw the dealings of the Lord in His life as the righteousness of God. Declare of His right doings, for He is not concern with our comfort but desire the fruit that abounds to our account. God only bother with sons (Heb 12:6).

Innocence, the Beginning to Spiritual Victory

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. (Psa 8:2)

What are the things that proceed from our mouth? Does it cause a stir to the spiritual environment in which we speak into (Matt 21:15), or the devil isn’t too bothered. The Father is looking for children in His quiver that has the spiritual stature to unashamedly ‘speak with the enemies in the gate’ (Psa 127:5) and to ‘possess the gate of his enemies’ (Gen 22:17).

Babes are not those who have towering physique nor exceptional vocal volume, but a company of believers that have the innocence, not in the sense of ignorance but in the sense of harmlessness (Matt 10:16) or gentleness (Php 4:5). Untainted by the world and living the realm of the Father’s love; whose eyes are fixed and unfazed by the glitter of the temporal (Psa 123:2). Suckling that feed on one life giving source (1 Pet 2:2), whose palate has not touched that which defiles. It is from such mouths that the Lord can use to still the enemy and the avenger unto spiritual victory.

Have we been winning spiritual battles lately? If not, check out what do we regard in our heart (Psa 66:18) and our secret desires (Prov 9:17). Not only God know, the devil does to.