Hiding?
Thank God We Cannot!
Sunday, April 23, 2023
Hide!?
Think Again!
You Can Not Hide
Even in the Darkest Thicket,
Or Anywhere!
Jeremiah 23:24
Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them? says the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? says the Lord.
Hebrews 4:13
And before him no creature is hidden, but all are naked and laid bare to the eyes of the one to whom we must render an account.
Words of Grace For Today
While we may run from the blessedness of life in so many ways, our running from is futile.
Still we run ourselves far and deep into death in so many ways.
And most of all we try to hide from God, out of fear that being seen by God will expose the futility of our striving to live and live longer and better than others, or better and longer than we should have. Then God will also know of the inevitable destruction to others caused by our futile strugglings.
No matter how hard and far we try to run away, God remains faithful.
God sees all we do.
We may think the worst of it all is that God will hold us to account for what we have thought, said, and done to others, to ourselves, and to God’s good creation.
Yet, we cannot hide, and thankfully so.
God remains faithful, picking us up when we fall flat on our faces, failures at living even in the least of successful ways. Even as God holds us to account, God graciously, freely offers us forgiveness and renewed life.
So today, how will we live today?
Resting in God’s always seeing and knowing us (deep into our bones and history and thoughts)?
Or
Stupidly thinking we can outsmart God and hide from God in every way?
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Breathe!
Rest easy: God does not abandon us to such foolishness!