NO PLACE TO HIDE

Imagine:  You’ve done nothing wrong.  You’re hiding from others that want to do you harm.  You trust others to conceal your whereabouts.  Your secret is safe with them.  It’s safe, that is, until someone spills the beans.

If you’re Anne Frank (The Diary of Anne Frank), it doesn’t turn out too well for you or yours.  If you’re David (Psalm 54), ratted out by the Ziphim tattletales, you see God’s deliverance, while your enemy gets spanked. 

Peace reigns through the rescue, but what about the Anne Frank-type issues that we deal with in our lives—how do we find peace in those?  Three steps:

First, realize that God loves you more than you love yourself. 

Second, He is sovereign and knows better about everything, and consequently may have a different agenda to accomplish than you think He does, and you seeking His wisdom in how to deal with things will help achieve His plan—for Him, and/or you, yourself, and others.

Third, part of that plan may have to do with life beyond this one, but if you don’t have a relationship with Him in this one, you won’t have one in the next, either. 

As the bumper sticker says, “Know Him.  Know peace.  No Him.  No peace.”

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Psalm 54

King James Version (KJV)

 ¹Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength.
 ²Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.
 ³For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
 ⁴Behold, God is mine helper: the Lord is with them that uphold my soul.
 ⁵He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: cut them off in thy truth.
 ⁶I will freely sacrifice unto thee: I will praise thy name, O LORD; for it is good.
 ⁷For he hath delivered me out of all trouble: and mine eye hath seen his desire upon mine enemies.