you can’t hide

You have searched me, Lord, and You know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; You perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; You are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue You, Lord, know it completely.

- Psalm 139:1-4

Remember playing hide and seek as a kid?

I always thought that I had these great spots where no one could find me.

I guess I wasn’t very good at the game because I was usually the first one found.

I have also come to know that we can’t hide from God. 

He knows us, He knows our hearts, our minds, our thoughts.

That can be scary sometimes, we are pitifully human and we are sinners, our minds and thoughts are not always pure.

It is a good thing that our God is full of mercy and grace, forgiveness and love.

My dear friend and I recently had a conversation in which he referred to this verse and said “God has no limit in His understanding. God has determined, understood, and known all things that would or will occur. God knows now and has always known all things—and He is certainly not bound by the actions or concepts of man in regards to good and bad, in order to know what will take place next.

God is an all-powerful and all-knowing being, in control of both evil and good - regardless however, His will stands. This is an important component of the authority of God: God is in control of everything, both evil and good. God has decreed evil in that He knew that Man would choose evil according to his free will. God could have prevented man from sinning by not creating man with free will, by not placing the forbidden tree in the garden, by not allowing Satan to tempt Eve, or God could have simply elected not to create man at all. However, God did create the world as good, but decreed to create a world in which He would allow sin to enter, according to the free will and responsibility of man, knowing that He would work it together for His good in accordance with His perfect purposes (see Romans 8:28).  Notice here that it says His  good, not the good (or lack thereof) of man.  Scripture reveals the sovereign hand of God in both good and evil as He decrees those things which come to pass:

Lamentations 3:37-38(NIV) — "Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it? Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good things come?"

Isaiah 45:7(NKJV) — "I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create calamity; I, the Lord, do all these things."

Because we can run, but we cant hide.

Thank you to my friend for his wise words and allowing me to share.

Have a blessed day.