You Can’t Hide from God

 

By Andrea Merrell

Lord, you know everything there is to know about me.

Psalm 139:1 TPT

 

“No one can know what I’ve done,” the young girl said through bitter tears. “I’ll never tell another living soul, and neither can you. It would ruin me.”

Her secret was safe with me, but what she failed to realize or accept was that God already knew.

When we try to hide those so-called secret sins—especially from God—they tend to take on a life of their own. They become our master and push us further into the darkness. No one understood this better than the psalmist David. He wrote:

Lord, you know everything there is to know about me. You perceive every movement of my heart and soul, and you understand my every thought before it even enters my mind. You are so intimately aware of me, Lord. You read my heart like an open book, and you know all the words I’m about to speak before I even start a sentence. You know every step I will take before my journey even begins. (Psalm 139:1-4 TPT)

When we understand how intimately acquainted God is with us, it changes everything. He know us inside and out, even better than we know ourselves. And He waits with open arms for us to come to Him and lay our burdens at His feet.

If you’re struggling in this area, pray along with David: God, I invite your searching gaze into my heart. Examine me through and through. Find out everything that may be hidden within me. Put me to the test and sift through all my anxious cares. See if there is any path of pain I’m walking on, and lead me back to your glorious, everlasting way—the path that brings me back to you (Psalm 139:23-24 TPT).

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