"For there is nothing hidden which will not be revealed, nor has anything been kept secret but that it should come to light."

Sometimes the thoughts and words of others 'pretty well say it all' - all that really needs saying, anyhow. Seeing as this gives every indication of being one of those times...

*Ever since his fall, Satan has worked by means of deception. As he has misrepresented God, so, through his agents, he misrepresents the children of God...

There was never one who walked among men more cruelly slandered than the Son of [M}an. He was derided and mocked because of His unswerving obedience to the principles of God's holy law. They hated Him without a cause...

While slander may blacken the reputation, it cannot stain the character. That is in God's keeping. So long as we do not consent to sin, there is no power, whether human or satanic, that can bring a stain upon the character.

A man whose heart is stayed upon God is just the same in the hour of his most afflicting trials and most discouraging surroundings as when he was in prosperity, when the light and favo[u]r of God seemed to be upon him.

His words, his motives, his actions, may be misrepresented and falsified, but he does not mind it, because he has greater interests at stake. Like Moses, he endures as 'seeing Him who is invisible... looking not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen.' 

Christ is acquainted with all that is misunderstood and misrepresented by men. His children can afford to wait in calm patience and trust, no matter how much maligned and despised...

For nothing is secret that shall not be made manifest...

...and those who honour God shall be honoured in the presence of men and angels.

And so the great Apostle Paul also admonished:

Judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, [W]ho will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts...
...and then each one's praise will come from God...-or otherwise!

**As the wise[st] man [who ever lived...or ever will - aside from Jesus Christ Himself] once put it, folks, there is indeed 'nothing new under the sun'. No, indeed!


*/**Due - and grateful -  acknowledgment to Ellen G White's classic tome, Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing (otherwise known as The Greatest Sermon Ever Preached); and to King Solomon's classic Older Testament book of Ecclesiastes.