Playing Peek-A-Boo With God

My Utmost For His Highest

 

May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless… —1 Thessalonians 5:23

 

{CHAMBERS}  “The great, mysterious work of the Holy Spirit is in the deep recesses of our being which we cannot reach. Read Psalm 139. The psalmist implies— “O Lord, You are the God of the early mornings, the God of the late nights, the God of the mountain peaks, and the God of the sea. […] My God, search me.” Do we believe that God can fortify and protect our thought processes far beyond where we can go? “…the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin” (1 John 1:7). If this verse means cleansing only on our conscious level, may God have mercy on us. The man who has been dulled by sin will say that he is not even conscious of it. But the cleansing from sin we experience will reach to the heights and depths of our spirit if we will “walk in the light as He is in the light” (1 John 1:7). The same Spirit that fed the life of Jesus Christ will feed the life of our spirit.”

 

{ELGIN}  There are times when I really don’t want God to search my heart.  Times I don’t want to acknowledge the sin that has taken root in me.  Like Adam and Eve hiding in the Garden.  (Genesis 3:8-10) God is looking for me, but I am avoiding Him because I am ashamed of my sin. Sounds crazy doesn’t it.  Why would we do that. Because it is in our old nature and the call of our old nature is always there.  The sound of it can only be dimmed through the strength of our relationship with our Lord. 

 

If you are hiding behind a bush instead of standing up and saying “Here I am Lord.”, then there is something spiritually amiss.  The thing is, there is no hiding.  Like playing peak-a-boo with your baby.  You don’t disappear, it’s just that your baby doesn’t see you.  In the same way, God is always present.  His Spirit is in every Christian, all the time.  God will not cast you out, Jesus has reconciled you for eternity, there is no reason to hide.  You have nothing to fear … forgiveness is certain.  Pride and guilt prevent you from living in victory.  There is victory in Jesus. (Hebrews 12:1) “Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.”