Hiding Place

“You are a hiding place for me, You, Lord, preserve me from trouble, You surround me with songs and shouts of deliverance.” Psalm 32:7 (Amplified)

           Aren’t there times in life where you feel like just getting away? Where just the pressures of life in general encompass you from every side and can feel a bit overwhelming. David sure did. A man persecuted unjustly for years and years, he absolutely needed to get away. But where? David discovered a place where he could seek shelter away from the trouble and persecution he was facing and he was eager to return to that place as often as he could. David saw this place as a place for rest where the troubles and toils of life would not be handled by him, but God.

            This place is real, and what’s more is that this place is available to us. David went a step further and in Psalm 91 referred to this hiding place as, “The secret place of the most high and the shadow of the Almighty.” Wow! Can you imagine that place? Being in the absolute stillness of God’s hand. Where nothing else matters, and where you feel God surrounding your every situation and circumstance.

God is waiting for us there. The problem often surfaces that in order to get there you must lay all of your burdens down before Him. There are many people who would rather not lay those burdens down. They reason to themselves, "God can’t handle my situation," or even worse, "God doesn’t really care about my need." What I would say to that is… If you haven’t tried it, then really you haven’t lived it. Come lay down the burdens you have carried… God is nearer than you think!