Today's Bible reading is in the sixth chapter of the Book of Matthew. You can read it here at Bible Gateway: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+6&version=NASB

In today’s scripture reading in Matthew Chapter 6, the word “secret” caught my attention. The word “secret” is repeated 6 times in the text and appears to be the same word used in the NASB, the ESV and the King James. We read of giving in secret, praying in secret and fasting in secret. These three seem to cover our outward acts of service, our pray life and our “fasting” or I might suggest, our Spirit lead self examination and seeking the Lord’s will to obey. I don’t suppose this “secret place” is truly a closet, a monastery, or an effort to remain anonymous in all that we do in Christ. It appears to be the secret place of the heart. Verse 21 tells us that “where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” When Christ is our treasure, the preeminent One in our life, our acts of giving and service are pleasing to Him, we find our prayers more consistent with His will and we desire a relationship marked by “simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ”. Oh, that Christ might be our treasure and that we might guard the secret place of the heart.

Greg