RUN! (to God)
Psalm 139: 7 - 12:
7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? 8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. 9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, 10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. 11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” 12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
As humans, we mess up. A lot. The problem is that after we mess up, we also try to "fix" things. And by "fix" we often really mean "hide." When we mess up, we don't actually want to do the necessary work to make amends and corrections - instead we usually are trying only to protect ourselves.
And when it comes to God, we act up even more! We try to be like Cain & hide ours sins from God but He can see all things. There is nothing that is hidden from the Lord, nothing that is in the dark for Him. We try to hide because we think that there is something that we can do to lose our acceptance by God – so we hide. But He knows our sin before we even think to try to sin.
Romans 8:35-39 reminds us how nothing can separate us from the love of God.
It states: "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Again, the Lord knows us and we cannot do anything that will surprise Him or cause Him to love us any less. Instead of trying to run and hide, we should be running TO Him.
Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for your grace and your mercy. Thank you that there is nothing that can separate me from your love and that you are the one who guides and orders my steps. Give me peace as I navigate this new path of acceptance and your love - lead me as I draw closer to you and be my comfort. Thank you. I love you.













