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Hiding Place

 Do you remember how much fun it was to play hide and seek when we were kids? It was especially great when I knew I had the best hiding place. There were times I was completely hidden from my friends, and I could hear them asking, “Where is he?” Those were the words that let me know I was going to win.

Now that I am grown I don’t play much hide and seek. Adults don’t typically look for hiding places, although sometimes we might wish we could hide away. But there is a hiding place we all need. Psalm 119:114 says, “You are my hiding place and my shield; I hope in your word.”

 

This psalm is similar to one of David, which contains the line, “For He will hide me in His shelter in the day of trouble; He will conceal me under the cover of His tent (27:5).”

 

Why would this writer need a hiding place? He was neither a child nor playing with his children. He needed a hiding place because of the people who bookend this verse. Psalm 119:113 mentions the doubleminded, and v.115 speaks of evildoers. The author needed a hiding place because the wicked people of the world were everywhere, and he didn’t want to get pulled away from his God. 

 

The wicked people of the world are still everywhere, and they will pull us away from our God. But that same God promised to be our hiding place, the shelter we can run to as we escape the doubleminded evildoers around us. There, with Jesus as our shelter, we can strengthen ourselves with His word. We can hide out in Him until we are refreshed and ready to go back out and face the world. 

 

The evildoers want to poison our mind with their garbage and bring us down; they want to entice us over to their side. But if God is our hiding place we can remain heavenly minded by keeping our thoughts fixed on Him. 

 

If the Lord is your hiding place then you know you are going to win. The world can seek, but they can’t find you. 

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