Charles Spurgeon Commentary Ecclesiastes 12:14

"For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil." — Ecclesiastes 12:14 (ASV)

For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

Notice that expression, "every secret thing." It is not merely our public actions that God will judge, otherwise we might be more at our ease; but he takes account of our most private thoughts, words, deeds, and intents. Who among us can endure that ordeal? Yet we must endure it if we are to stand before him. O Lord, prepare us, by Your infinite grace, through faith in Your dear Son, and by the regenerating work of Your gracious Spirit, for this solemn testing time! Amen.

For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

Depend upon it that it will be so. At the last great day, there will be a revelation of everything, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. Nor need the righteous fear that revelation, for they will only magnify in that day the amazing grace of God which has put all their iniquities away; and then shall all people know how great the grace of God was in passing by iniquity, transgression, and sin.