The Secret of The Lord
Psalm 25:14 says, “The secret of the Lord is with those who fear Him, and He will show them His covenant.” Then we turn over to the New Testament and read in Colossians 1:26 and 27, “the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints. To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.”
The statement, ‘the secret of the Lord,’ is an interesting statement. We first notice that whatever it is, it is revealed or given only to those who fear Him. The word ‘fear’ simply means to reverence, to hold in awe, to bow down to, to obey. Only those who ‘morally revere’ Him know or have or receive the secret of the Lord. Scriptures tells us and reveal to us that sinners don’t fear God in this way. In fact, they don’t fear God in any way, or else their lives and living would be different. So, this is talking about the saints, Christians, to whom Paul was writing in our verses in Colossians.
In those verses Paul gives us in Colossians, he mentions the mystery, or the secret hidden for a while but now revealed to the saints. And that mystery is ‘Christ in you.’ I believe we can put both of these Scriptures together and say that the secret of the Lord, the mystery of the Lord, is Christ coming and dwelling, not necessarily with us though that would be included no doubt, but Christ IN us, the hope of glory.
Many people would not have understood this back in the Old Testament times, a thought Paul brings out by saying it was hidden from ages and from generations. Some were able to grasp the truth, thus the writing found in Psalm 25, but not fully. It was not until Christ came and lived an taught and died and rose again, that the truth became known fully, as much as humanity can understand anyways.
People who have no fear of God, who do not know Jesus as a personal Savior, who haven’t fully surrendered to the Lord, cannot grasp the truth of this. It is a secret given to those who have given themselves to Jesus. How can you explain the wonderful mystery of Christ in us to those who do not really know Christ? You can’t. But what a wonderful truth! Anybody can know it, if they turn their heart and life over to Jesus! We can know the secret, the mystery of the Lord, which is Him dwelling in us, shaping and molding and making us into a vessel fit for His use!