Hiding from God | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 11, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 10.

Hiding from God.

God never hides from man when man is in trouble. When Adam sinned, it was not God who hid from Adam, but Adam tried to hide from God. Of course, the attempt was vain, but sin-blinded Adam could not see it. God saw it and knew it all. Adam hid himself, but God sought him. The sheep flees from the wise shepherd, the shepherd follows that he may save the sheep. Thus it was with the first sinner; thus it has been with every sinner since. It is man ever trying to hide his sins by self-justification or hypocrisy or hiding; it is God in tender love ever seeking the sinner to save him, to take away his sins, to set him in the right path. Even so, sinner, it is with us. We may think ourselves hidden from God, but he knows all about us, and he is “not far from every one of us.” Acts 17:27. If we love the sin more than God, we will hide with the sin, and turn from God. With the sin will we at last be destroyed; for “the end of those things is death.” But if we turn to God, show him our sins, he will look upon them, and the glory of his presence will consume the sin. Then we may hide in God.