CAN ANY ONE HIDE HIMSELF?
“CAN any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord.” Jer. xxiii, 4. Guilt always dreads the eye of justice. The criminal always seeks concealment. From man we may hide, but who can hide himself from God? The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. Adam tried to hide, but he could not. Achan tried to conceal his sin, but he could not. Hosts of great men, and rich men, and mighty men, and men of all classes, will beg of the rocks and mountains to hide them from the face of the Lamb, but all in vain. There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves. Reader? there is no place in God’s universe that can hide thee from the face of God. You must meet him. You must stand naked before him. You must account for every sin of thought, word, and deed, unto him. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. Oh think of that day, when God shall single thee out from among millions, to stand alone before him, to be judged by him; when the history of thy life shall be unrolled, and thou shalt be required to answer for every day, every hour, every minute of thy life! What would you give for an hiding place then? How will you will feel? What will be your reflections? God’s eye will pierce you through and through; and conscience, which perhaps slumbers now, will be wide awake then, and will take God’s part against thee on every charge. Then he will set your iniquities before his face, your secret sins in the light of his countenance. Then you will have no advocate, no friend, no way of escape, but be speechless before his glorious throne. “Whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.” Ps. cxxxix, 7, 8.