Be on the up and up! (Luke 12:2-3)

Luke 12:2-3   2 Nothing is covered up that will not be uncovered, and nothing secret that will not become known.  3 Therefore whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered behind closed doors will be proclaimed from the housetops.  

I had a conflict management teacher who taught that the key to conflict management was all about manipulating people to do what you wanted them to do. And as any good manipulator knows, getting people to keep secrets and form secret alliances is key to wrongful power.  Healthy power has nothing to hide and doesn't even try to.  Jesus was not manipulative nor did he teach his followers to be.

Be on the up and up!  Don't align yourself with people who aren't.

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Other gospels weigh in...

Matthew 10:26-27   26 "So have no fear of them; for nothing is covered up that will not be uncovered, and nothing secret that will not become known.  27 What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light; and what you hear whispered, proclaim from the housetops.