When my daughter Esther was about 3 years old, we had a little night-time hide-and-seek game we played with Altha. At bedtime Esther and I would go upstairs, get in her bed, and hide under her big pink comforter. Altha would come up stairs, look around the room, saying “Esther, where are you?” In her innocence, Esther didn't know the big father/daughter lump under the comforter was obvious. But as long as we stayed quiet, barely breathing, Esther believed we were hidden from Atha’s eyes.
And it is equally silly for us to think we can hide from God. But we do. That’s why a lot of people don’t cultivate a Secret Place with God—they are HIDING: feeling guilty, embarrassed, ashamed: “Nothing in all creation can hide from him. Everything is naked and exposed before his eyes” (Heb. 4:13).
But guess what! We don’t have to hide anything from God. Since we have died to the “old self,” we have “renounced the things hidden because of shame,” (2 Cor. 4:2); and are” hidden with Christ in God” (Col. 3:3). When God sees you, He sees you hidden in (through) Jesus. And when everything invisible becomes manifested, we who are in Jesus will also be seen in a glorious new condition, because Jesus “will take these weak mortal bodies of ours and change them into glorious bodies like his own” (Phil. 3:21).
As the world becomes more frightening, your Secret Place will increasingly become your Hiding Place. There you can come out from under your pink comforter and tell Him all your secrets.
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