Running and Hiding
You can run, but you can’t hide!
Have you ever tried to hide from God, or even run away from Him? Y’all come on now, let’s not begin this with lying to ourselves.
Yes I am sure all of us have at one time or another tried to hide from God. Oh we really don’t find some dark hole to crawl in, what we do is try and exclude God from areas of our lives believing that we don’t want God involved there.(we try to hide that thing from God) it cannot be done!
Let me repeat that, IT CAN NOT BE DONE! No one, not the lost and surely not the saved can hide anything from God!
We should all want God in every single aspect of our lives. I want God in my love for others, I want Him in my decision making, I want Him in my treatment of others,I want Him in my politics, I want Him in my quiet time when I’m alone in the darkness, I want Him in my viewing time, online and the television, I want God in my reading time, I want God in my home and that includes in my bedroom, I want God in my friendships, I want Him in my interactions with my animals, I want Him in my teachings, in my heart and in my mind! Y’all beginning to get the picture?
As a believer God belongs in every imaginable area of our lives! The Bible says in Proverbs 23:7 for whatever a man thinks in his heart, so is he!
there is no halfway! If there is a part of your life you do not want God in, then in actuality you don’t want Him anywhere in your life! If I try to exclude God from some area then I am destined for failure. You see, trying to exclude God from anything is a prideful act. And the scripture clearly teaches Proverbs 16:18 pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
When God says that being prideful will bring destruction He isn’t kidding! If we allow ourselves to be prideful everyone around us should flee so they don’t have to witness what’s coming!
Nothing is hidden for the eyes of God! Not by the lost, not by the saved, nothing! What is done in the darkness will be brought into the light.
What about running for God, yep, we do that too at times. We get selfish, and refuse to relinquish some type of sin. That’s one form of running, maybe there is an area of our life we just won’t invite God into. I remember when I was young, my father was very good at finding things for me to do on the weekends and through the summer.
So I would make plans to do something else before he had a chance to find something for me to do. I would leave the house early and stay gone all day just to avoid things I should have been doing. We didn’t have cell phones in those days so it was hard for parents to keep track of kids all the time. I was running from my responsibilities.
Don’t we do the same sort of thing with God? We don’t go to church or Sunday school, we won’t listen to a sermon on television or the radio, we will even avoid talking to those that we know follow God so that we won’t feel convicted about something in our lives.
That’s running from God! Any time we intentionally avoid reading the Bible, or hearing a message, or a Sunday school lesson we are running from God. I have learned not to avoid God, I no longer run away, but instead I seek His face always!
One valuable thing I would like to pass on to you all, when a person that you wouldn’t expect to hear scripture from quotes a scripture verse in you presence, You Better listen, because God is trying to tell you something important! When this happens to me now, I run to the Bible and read the verse and the context, then contemplate how it relates to me and my life.
The same goes for hearing God's word randomly seemingly out of nowhere, pay attention! The Holy Spirit will often try and get our attention in this way.
In running from God we are forsaking Him avoiding our very Creator, when we should be running to His teachings and the Word, seeking His face desiring His presence.
Jesus said He would never leave us or forsake us.
So let us not forsake Him.
Kenneth Kellar
A Man Called by God to Teach and Disciple