https://odb.org/MY/2022/03/05/safe-hands
I don’t know about you but when I was young and started reading Enid Blyton novels like the Famous Five, I always dreamt of having my own tree house. A place away from my own room or house that is mine to hide out with my gang or just I alone. A place where we are hidden away from the world where we can be alone by ourselves – our hiding place.
Just a few days back I watched a Japanese drama series on Netflix where the story was that the wife of a senior judge required her to maintain a low profile so that he is perceived as humble, fair and objective. She wears old shoes to move around but she actually rents a small storage room somewhere in the city where she keeps her nice shoes and fancy bags and goes there daily just to wear and see them within the confines of her storage room. That room was her hiding place to enjoy her passion for her designer shoes and bags.
Do we have a hiding place, a place of refuge where we can truly be ourself? A place where we can pursue our deepest interests unhindered. Some people have a farm for that, like a cabin in the woods. Some people go camping in remote places using 4WD vehicles with camping and cooking gear, just to enjoy the serenity and peace of the deep forest. Yet there are some who go fishing just for that, at a fishing farm or out at sea. Or some ladies go for spa for indulgent self pampering.
Psalm 32 teaches us that the LORD our God is our hiding place. Jesus Christ had broken down the veil for us and made God accessible by us directly without needing to go through intermediaries like the priests as we are now a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation (1 Peter 2:9). In Psalm 32, David described the Lord as someone who will protect us from trouble, surrounding us with songs of deliverance, instructing us and teaching us on where to go and counselling us with loving eyes.
But the key to understanding Psalm 32 lies with what David meant by his bones. It means his health and his physical well being. David said when he kept silent his bones wasted away. He felt God’s hands were heavy on him, his energy being sapped away in the heat of summer, his groaning is all day long. Then David acknowledged his sin and did not cover his iniquity. He confessed his transgressions and the LORD forgave the guilt of his sin.
As much as our salvation is assured by the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross, sanctification is a constant affair. Confess our sins before Him, acknowledge our transgressions and iniquities. Forgive those who have sinned against us. The LORD thus will then be our true hiding place; a place of refuge, a place of rejuvenation, a place of strength where our physical and spiritual well-being are energised, a place where our bones will come alive and not be wasted away. Make the LORD our God our hiding place, for indeed He is good and faithful, His love endureth forever! Amen
Ronnie's Thoughts 