Show Me Your Glory: Search Out the Treasure Hidden in the Trial

Introduction

There are weeks when you arrive at Sunday exhausted. A summons, a doctor's appointment, a bill, a conversation that went wrong. In this Part 2 of the series Lord, Show Me Your Glory, Junias ANANE takes time to name a very precise inner shift, the one that plays out between a slave mentality and a king's mentality in the face of the very same trial. The starting text is short, almost blunt: Proverbs 25:2 · "It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search it out."

In other words: God hides a treasure in your situation. If you stay a slave, you will only see the problem. If you take your place as a king, you will learn to search it out, and you will end up seeing what he hid. This article walks step by step through the teaching given that Sunday.

Outline of the Article

1. The Starting Point: Proverbs 25:2

Junias opens his Bible to Proverbs 25:2. Two glories are set against each other here. God's glory is to conceal. The king's glory is to search out what God has concealed. This is not a game of hide and seek for its own sake. God hides so that you will seek, and what he wants you to find is one specific thing: his glory.

The preacher insists: in every trial you go through, there is a treasure that God has hidden on purpose. The question is not "why this trial?" but "what has God hidden inside it, and am I willing to search it out to find it?"

2. Two Mindsets Facing the Same Situation

When you put a slave and a king in front of exactly the same circumstance, you get two opposite reactions.

• The slave does not search. He talks about the problem, details how complicated it is, and makes it bigger every time he tells it. He grumbles, he complains, it gives him nightmares, he struggles to get up in the morning, and eventually he ends up cursing God and his own family. He is absorbed by the situation.
• The king does not deny the problem. He does not pretend. But he looks beyond it. He focuses his attention on the treasure God has hidden behind the problem.

Junias makes no bones about it: you can be a king before God and still carry a slave mentality, simply because you lived as a slave for so long. Getting out of Egypt happens faster than getting Egypt out of you.

3. Moses at the Red Sea: The Demonstration

Turn to Exodus 14:10-14. The people are trapped: the sea ahead of them, Pharaoh's army behind them. The children of Israel do exactly what a slave does: they talk about the problem. "Is this not what we told you in Egypt? Let us serve the Egyptians, for it is better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness." They detail it, they regret it, they accuse.

Moses, on the other hand, has received a king's mentality. His answer is simple: "Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will work for you today; for the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again." Where the others look at the distress, Moses points to the deliverance hidden inside the distress. It was not visible. It had to be searched out to be seen.

4. Jesus at the Cross: The Glory Hidden Inside the Judgment

Junias extends the demonstration all the way to the New Testament, in John 12:27-32. Jesus is about to be crucified. He could talk about the suffering that is coming. Instead, he chooses to speak of what God has hidden inside the cross: "Now is the judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be cast out. And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself."

Facing the most painful event in history, Jesus takes on the royal posture. He does not deny the cross. He announces the treasure: the judgment of sin is already carried, the ruler of this world is already cast down, the victory is already secured. That was two thousand years ago. Today you are living in the shadow of a cross that has already settled everything.

5. What a King's Mentality Changes

Concretely, leaving the slave mentality behind changes three things:

• Your speech. You stop making the problem bigger with every conversation. You search out and proclaim what God has hidden.
• Your worship. A king does not worship like a beggar. He enters God's presence with gratitude, as Psalm 100 describes it: not with complaints, but with songs of praise.
• Your patience. The king accepts two words the slave refuses: soon and later. Between the two, he places his trust in God and waits for the deliverance to come out of hiding.

Key Takeaways

• God hides a specific treasure in your situation; his glory consists in hiding it, yours in searching it out.
• Facing the same problem, the slave talks about the problem while the king looks for the deliverance hidden behind it.
• Moses at the Red Sea is the prototype of the king: he does not deny the distress, he points to the deliverance.
• Jesus at the cross carries this posture to its highest point: instead of announcing his suffering, he announces your already secured victory.
• Leaving the slave mentality behind takes time, but it changes your speech, your worship, and your patience.

Personal Application

• What situation have you been talking about a lot lately? Are you searching it out, or just making it bigger?
• If God has hidden a treasure in this specific trial, what are you beginning to glimpse when you take the time to search it out?
• Does the way you come into God's presence look more like a slave complaining, or a king giving thanks?
• What words do you use when you tell a brother or sister what you are going through? Do you describe the Red Sea, or the deliverance?
• Is there a "soon" or a "later" from God that you are refusing to rest in today?

Verses Cited

• Proverbs 25:2 · The glory of God and the glory of kings.
• Exodus 14:10-14 · Moses at the Red Sea: "see the deliverance."
• John 12:27-32 · Jesus announces the glory hidden in the cross.
• Psalm 100 · Entering God's presence with gratitude.
• Psalm 40:5-6 · Blessed is the man who places his trust in the Lord.

FAQ

Does "searching out what God has hidden" mean denying the problem?

No. Junias ANANE repeats it: the king does not deny the problem and does not pretend. Moses sees the Egyptian army very clearly. Jesus sees the cross very clearly. The difference is the focal point: the king simply refuses to let the problem be the only horizon.

How do you leave a slave mentality behind if you have carried it for a long time?

The preacher acknowledges that the exit is not instant. It takes time to work through it, to remove years of conditioning. It starts with a choice in your speech: stop telling the problem, start searching out and proclaiming what God has hidden.

What should you do when deliverance is slow to come?

Junias highlights two words from God that the slave refuses and the king welcomes: soon and later. Between the two, the royal posture is to place your trust in God, to keep worshiping, and to let the deliverance come out of hiding in God's own timing.