Have you ever played Hide and Seek with small children? Often they hide in very visible and easy to find places! When our twins were about three I remember one time they sat next to each other and “hid” on the other side of our large living room chair. Since they couldn’t see me, they assumed I couldn’t see them!
Similarly, we can’t hide from God. Just because we
can’t “see” Him doesn’t mean He can’t see us. He sees everything. At the end of
time, when He releases His wrath, all kinds of people will try to hide from His
wrath.
Revelation
6:12-17 12 I watched as he [the Lamb/Jesus] opened the sixth seal. There
was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the
whole moon turned blood red,13 and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as figs drop from a fig
tree when shaken by a strong wind. 14 The heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and
island was removed from its place.
15 Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the
rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free, hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains. 16 They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the
face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of
the Lamb! 17 For the
great day of their wrath has come, and who can withstand it?”
No one
can hide or escape from God. Death will not give relief to those experiencing
God’s wrath. In fact, eternal death will be far worse. If those running and
hiding from God would instead turn and run towards God, He would forgive them,
even in the last moments of time.
When
God’s judgment comes, will you be hiding in dread or resting secure in your
relationship with God Almighty? Who do you and I know that even now seems to be
trying to hide from God instead of running towards Him? What truths will you
and I share with them?
