This post is about yet another object lesson that God showed me through my baby girl this morning.
We've started the packing process, so I've got a few plastic bags and such sitting around the den waiting to be filled with stuff. E managed to get her hands on one of these plastic bags before I could move it out of her reach. As we all know, plastic bags are dangerous to little kiddos...so I jumped up to get it from her and tell her "danger!" as I'm trying to teach her.
E, of course, wants to play with the new "toy" she found, and she knows I'm coming to take it from her, so she starts crawling away from me as fast as she can...which is actually pretty fast. She scoots across the room, around the big chair, and heads back into the center of the den in an effort to run faster than I can and keep her new toy for a little while.
As she was running away from me, I said to her, "Where do you think you're going?" -- meaning, this is a small room and you can't get out...you can't escape me, no matter how fast you scoot around. I'm going to get that from you to keep you safe.
It occurred to me that we do exactly this all the time with God. We find a new toy that could be dangerous to us, we know God is coming to take it away because he tells us He's coming and that we should put it down...so we try to run away with our new toy.
But He's going to catch us. He's going to keep us safe. How silly is it to try to run from a God who is everywhere? Our world is small and we have nowhere to hide from Him. He is so much bigger than even the world in which we live. And as a very good Father, he's not going to let us play with things that are dangerous, because He loves us. So where do we think we're going?
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Can anyone hide in secret places
so that I cannot see him?"
so that I cannot see him?"
declares the LORD.
"Do not I fill heaven and earth?"
declares the LORD.
~Jeremiah 23:24
