No More Hiding
I can not hide from the Lord anymore. Even in my fleeing I am exposed. I’ve tasted an intimacy that I now crave. My flesh runs but this God shaped void continues to burn me from the inside out. I try to avoid the exposure of my sin nature to God’s coterizing stare, but His grace saturates my wounds.
I am the fearful child who doesn’t want the father to remove the splinter. But the father knows that to endure the momentary pain the removal process demands will bring instant relief to the body. The father knows better. The child’s limited experience allows for the reckless zeal and unrealized lack of reason. The father lovingly allows the struggle. If only the child would surrender. If only the child could trust. If only the child knew the limits of their reason and logic. If only the child’s reflex was to stay close to the father, hand in hand, in moments of safety as well as the more typical moments of fear…
No more hiding…teach me to trust. Teach me surrender.
2 Comments
Kyle Chowning
Monday, 16th February 2009 at 11:49 pm
Now that I’m a dad, this post hits home more than ever. I see my child jerking back…overreacting….fussing at the minor; all while, knowing that if she’d trust me, I’d do what’s best for her.
I’m with you.
KattyBlackyard
Monday, 15th June 2009 at 10:50 am
Hi, very nice post. I have been wonder’n bout this issue,so thanks for posting
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