That Secret Hiding Place
April 17, 2025

KEY FROM GOD’S WORD:

Proverbs 2:1, 2 & 5
 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;… Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.

 

THOUGHTS ON GOD’S WORD:

     Everyone likes to feel safe. We like to have a special place where it seems as if the world around us cannot get to us, and no matter what is happening all around us, we feel safe.

 

     I grew up almost my entire childhood in one neighborhood. I played every day with the same playmates. Hide and Go Seek was one of our favorite games to play. After a while, it seemed as if we all had found and known all the good hiding places. However, there was one place in the neighborhood where I could hide, and no one could find me. It was my all-time favorite, super great hiding spot, in which no one ever figured out where I was. I was always incredibly careful to watch every time I used it to be sure no one ever saw me going in or out of it. They would walk by and never see me. I knew if I could get into my secret place, I was always safe.

 

     That is what our verse today says: that life is like in Jesus. He is our secret hiding place. Satan cannot get us in Christ. He can tempt us and can pick at us, but he can never ever have us. We are in a safe place for all eternity.

 

CARRYING THAT THOUGHT THROUGH THE DAY:

 

     In Christ, we are safe evermore. Isn’t that the best feeling? Isn’t that the best assurance? How could anyone want to live in this day and not be safe? Safe from the penalty of sin. Safe from the person of Satan. Safe in the perfect dwelling place of our Saviour, Jesus. Psalm 91:1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty…This is by far my Favorite Secret Hiding place, which I no longer want to be a secret. Come hide in Christ with me.

 

Where is your safe space?

 

IF YOU ARE JOURNALING:

Ask yourself, what are MY THOUGHTS concerning this Passage and today’s Devotion?

 

Do I find within this reading a CHALLENGE for my life?

 

What are one or two things I WILL DO today or this week to accept that CHALLENGE?

 

  

GOD TALKING TO ME:  April 17, 2025

THROUGH THE BIBLE ACCELERATED READING
^{(OT-1, NT & PS-2, Prov-Monthly)}
Joshua 15, 16 – Psalm 91
Proverbs 17 – Acts 18 

 

THROUGH THE BIBLE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT DAILY
Judges 10-11 – Luke 12:36-59