Psalm 32
"Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile. When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
I acknowledge my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him. Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee. Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about. Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy all ye that are upright in heart."
Jeremiah 23:24
"Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord."
A question is asked here by the Lord Himself..."Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord."
Now, back to the 32nd Psalm - verse 7....Five specific words - Thou Art My Hiding Place.
Very often we are confronted with the question, "do you know so and so?" Many times we say, "Yes, I do, very well indeed." The whole truth is, we never really know another person. We can not really know their heart and their thoughts. We know them in terms of the words we hear them speak, the attitudes they adopt and the action they perform; but, the motives behind all these are hidden to us. We are ignorant of their fears, their anxieties and their inner thoughts. It is their privacy and no man can invade.
But, even this privacy is not complete according to our scripture text. "Can any hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? saith the Lord." The answer is an emphatic NO. The God who made us knows us in a way that no man can ever know us. Our innermost thoughts are open to Him. Our heart is as glass to Him. Our motives lie bare before His searching eyes. The Bible says in Psalm 94:9 "He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?" The writer of the Hebrews declared in Hebrews 4:14, "Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do." Jesus said in Matthew 10:26, "Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be know." Also, in Luke 12:2, Jesus again says, "For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known."
Friends - Be sure your sins will find you out!
Yet, men imagine that there are hidden places in their lives which no one can see. They feel they can commit sin and do wrong; no one will be aware of it. Maybe no one will....but God knows and sees. There are no hiding places as far as God is concerned. There are no secret places that He does not see.
Adam - he couldn't hid from God. God came down in the cool of the day and searched him out.
David - he thought no one knew about his adultery. God knew and brought it all out into the open.
Ananias and Sapphira - they though they could conceal their covetousness and deceit beneath a show of piety, but God's hand of judgment fell on them. You've hear it said over and over I am sure -
"You may fool a man but you can't fool God."
God knows all about secret things and secret places.
Do you have any secret place? Are there sins which you would hate for another person to see? Are there impurities which you cherish but would hate others to know about? Are there things below the surface that you are trying to keep covered up?
You may try to hide sin...you may try to deaden your conscience...you may try to fill your mind with pleasant things and try to avoid thinking about the consequences of your poor choices - BUT, my friend, sooner or later the veil will be ripped away and you will have to face the judgments of God. The Bible is clear when it says that a day is coming when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed.
You can not hide from God. You can not stay in your wrong way of living and think that you will "get by" and escape the judgments of God. HOWEVER, .....Good News.....I do want to tell you...
THERE IS A HIDING PLACE!
This hiding place is a person......the person of Jesus Christ!
The prophet Isaiah said in Isaiah 32:2, "And a man shall be as an hiding place........." Friends, that man is Jesus Christ.
In our scripture text, Psalm 32:7, David says...."thou art my hiding place."
There is refuge found in the Lord Jesus Christ!
Won't you flee to Him right now? There is only one way you can hide your sins and that is to be sorry for them and flee to Jesus Christ, the Savior and ask His forgiveness. BELIEVE that He forgave you and move forward in your journey with Him.
If you have not done so already, why not come to Him in repentance and confession of your sin?
1 John 1:9 tells us, "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
Wherever you are today, know this one thing ....God loves you! He doesn't wish that anyone perish but that everyone would come to Him in repentance. Take a moment, bow your head and humble your heart before Almighty God and ask Jesus to cleanse your soul. Let Him be your hiding place!
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