Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence (Psalm 139:7, New International Version).
Scripture: Psalm 139:7-12
Song: "Where the Spirit of the Lord Is"
In the middle of the night, my friend's sister, distraught because of her difficult marriage, drove several hours from her home in southern California to Yosemite National Park. She then hiked to the top of Half Dome, the park's famous glacier-carved, half-sphere rock formation. The final ascent up the curved back of the granite mountain is challenging in daylight but filled with risk after dark. When she reached the peak, she hiked back down, got in her car and drove home.
Pondering the dramatic story, I wondered what she was felling and thinking. Was she hoping she'd fall off the giant rock? Was she running away from her problems-then somehow found enough strength to go back and face them? Was she angry? Was she crying?
All of us would like to escape at times. The psalmist has good and bad news for us: we can't run away from God. While I don't know whether the frustrated wife found peace in her marriage, I do know that even the night sky at the top of Half Dome was not dark enough to hide her from God's presence and love.
Prayer: Dear Lord, like Adam and Even in the garden, we run away to hide our shame, our sin, our pain. Forgive me, and help me come out of hiding to acknowledge Your abiding presence. Through Christ I pray. Amen.
- taken from 365 Devotions by Standard (Pocket Edition)
2 comments:
you can run you can hide but you can't escape my love
- enrique
but seriously. it's pretty darn true. brap to that.
- Jono
i was thinking the same thing jono lol, enrique
its funny reading this. At the beginning of the year, i was planning to leave CCF in search of a new fellowship, lo and behold, i'm running for a position at CCF. Can't escape his calling? at CCF? we'll see!
-kim
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