All tagged hiding
Where do we hide when we are frightened, and why? Are we afraid of failure, of displeasing God, of our sin, or the everyday pain of living? Why do we feel inclined to seek out a hiding place at all? Perhaps we are fearful by nature and simply shelter ourselves from the difficult things in our lives? But even if we don’t hide we may know people who do; those who attempt to hide themselves from the world and quite possibly from God.
Where do we hide, and why? Are we afraid of failure, of displeasing God, sin, or the pain of living? Why do we feel inclined to seek out a hiding place or shelter ourselves from life? Many of us hide ourselves from the world around us; while others hide from God Himself.
Here are a couple of questions for us today... do we hear Jesus calling to us, and if so, are we prepared to come to Him when He beckons? If we listen to His voice, and go to Him... he promises to give us rest.
We Christians are not immune to the trouble that is in the world, and we experience the hatred of men, just as Jesus did. Jesus told us this would happen, and that not only would we be hated, but killed as well. Yet our hope remains in the Lord, and although we are perplexed by His allowing suffering to continue in our lives, we do praise Him in its midst, and see the good lessons that come from each one. David understood that earthly trouble would come, and he asked the Lord the same question that many of us continue to ask Him today… “Why do you stand far away?”