Jun
25
Bad Hiding Technique
Filed Under Devotional
We met with our house church earlier this week and there was a moment when all three of us were fighting the urge to laugh. You see, we were sitting in the back row and while one of the other folks there was describing his prayer request, he began to ramble. Sitting near us was a two-year old who is quite good at sitting quietly. But, just as I looked over at him, he tilted his head forward and put his hand over his eyes. It had the perfect look of someone saying, “Oh, man, will he ever stop talking?”
We were biting our lips and trying not to crack up. Just great timing. It turns out that he wasn’t making a commentary on the speaker at all, but he was hiding. You have to love the logic of a two-year old that concludes that if you cover your eyes, nobody else can see you. Always great for a laugh.
Oddly, though, we seem to think we can get away with it, too. Somehow, if nobody from church sees my sin, it didn’t count. Or, if my wife didn’t complain, it must be okay. This is not really any different from closing your eyes and deciding that God can’t see you.
” ‘Can anyone hide in secret places so that I cannot see him?’ declares the LORD. ‘Do not I fill heaven and earth?’ declares the LORD.” Jeremiah 23:24
That’s a rhetorical question.
I almost laugh when I find myself in that situation now. I have this image of a guy hiding in an alley looking over his shoulder. If he hurries and can get back into the crowd quick enough, nobody will ever notice what he was doing. Surely God won’t notice since he was so quick. He doesn’t realize that God may as well be standing right next to him the whole time.
Take your hands down from your eyes. Open them. God is still there. He saw it all. There’s no point hiding. Repent, ask for forgiveness, and get on with the plan.