Why Hide?

Jeremiah 23:24 New International Version (NIV) 24 Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them?” declares the Lord. “Do not I fill heaven and earth?” declares the Lord. Often as humans we find that we want to hide every little thing possible from our Creator out of fear that has been instilled within our hearts by the sin we've committed and Satan, himself. Yet, we do not have to -try- to hide everything or anything from the Lord because He already knows and sees it from above. In Jeremiah 23:24 it explains that who can hide their everything from the Lord when He sees it already? Why are you trying to hide when you, the human, have known that the Lord is filled within the Earth? The Lord is everywhere. He knows and sees your every action and thought. I find that, when we try to hide from God, we are only distancing ourselves from the One who wants nothing more than to love and discipline us. We are His children and He wants a relationship with every single one of us. When you run and hide, you're placing a gap between the trust that you are to have with God. Yet, that gap is technically not even really there because He has promised to be by your side the entire time, even when we run and hide. He has promised to be with us and protect us. I want all of you to to read Isaiah 43. In this chapter the Lord reminds Jacob of His love and protection for Him. He shares with him how He knows his actions towards the Lord, but is still loving, forgiving, merciful, and is keeping His promise to His people because He loves them and they are His! What an amazing Father that we have! Isaiah 43:2 New International Version (NIV) 2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze. Brothers and sisters, do not fret when you grow in faint and weary, He's there for you to pick you right back up and He continues to walk with you. He watches over your every foot step so that you will not drift away from Him. (Personally, I know that I can hold to this because I have my moments just as any other person out there of the faith who tends to drift away from the walk with the Lord. I've been at my lowest of lows, hardship, and have tried to hide and fight away in attempts to handle it all on my own...NOPE! He never let go and kept me there and corrected my path so that I can be free and have life in His name! He does this for His people because He wants -you- to have life in His name.) Psalm 142:3 New International Version (NIV) 3 When my spirit grows faint within me, it is you who watch over my way. In the path where I walk people have hidden a snare for me. When we feel the life of a disciple getting tough and hard because of the world of darkness we live in, God knows and is always ready to step in and take control. Ultimately, God has control over all of our situations, even when we try so hard to hide our faults within those situations, He still sees them. Yet, what is awesome about this is, He sends His Spirit to convict our hearts so that we may recognize what the sin(s) may be and so that we can just come out of that darkness where we were hiding within to only make it revealed to the light. Despite He already knows, He still wants us to reveal it to Him in the light and surface so that He can take it from our hands and say, "It is finished..." (John 19:30) When we confess what was all hidden within our hearts to the Lord, He sincerely does take it all away to renew our hearts for Him and to feel and know that love He has given and shown for us. Psalm 104:30 New International Version (NIV) 30 When you send your Spirit, they are created, and you renew the face of the ground. Isaiah 40:31 New International Version (NIV) 31 but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. Although, we are encouraged and comforted by knowing the Lord will strengthen us, the convicting word of God in 1 John 1 is definitely also comforting in a way because we are reminded of how we ought to be living our lives for Christ and this verse also will give us encouragement deep within to be sure we are being honest in our walk with Him; 1 John 1:6 New International Version (NIV) 6 If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. My brothers and sisters in Christ, Do not fear to make all of what is hidden from the Lord, revealed into the light because He has promised to renew your strength so that you may not grow fain and weary while in this Earthly life. He has promised to bring you a renewal of your mind so that you may be able to stand firm and a-test to the faith and what God's will is for you. Romans 12:2 New International Version (NIV) 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is —his good, pleasing and perfect will. Job 11:15 New International Version (NIV) 15 then, free of fault, you will lift up your face; you will stand firm and without fear. Psalm 33:11 New International Version (NIV) 11 But the plans of the Lord stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations. Brothers and sisters, I pray that He will give you the strength and courageous heart to stand firm in this world and to stand up against the demons and give all that is hidden in that darkness to only be revealed into light and make known to the Lord. By doing so, I pray that your relationship with Him will be strengthened, renewed, and He would show His unconditional love by picking you up, dusting you off, and saying, "Go in peace and serve in the name of the Lord." I pray that He would keep you in His hands and give you such a comfort that you will no longer feel afraid to just go to the Lord with anything and you would no longer hide from His face. I want you to know that He loves you all so much that He would never want harm or any form of hurting in your heart. No Father wants that for their child. You are His. I pray that by what I am sharing with you is encouraging and reassuring. I pray for you all. In Him, Mak 2 Corinthians 4:6 New International Version (NIV) 6 For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,”[a] made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ. Titus 3:5 New International Version (NIV) 5 he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit,