By: Elizabeth Haarberg

You Can Run, But You Can’t Hide.

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Sin is bad. Repentance is good. It sounds simple, but our head and heart make it more complicated. When we sin, not if, it’s not only important but critical that we don’t hide from God. He sees it all and we can NEVER hide.

“…and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called…” Genesis 3:8-9 English Standard Version

He is beginning and end and he knows what we did, what we are going to do, and what we are doing.

“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”
Revelation 22:13 English Standard Version

Our sin is the opportunity that Satan gives us to isolate and separate from our friends and God. God has never said we should hide from Him. He wants us to continue to come to Him even when we make terrible decisions. We may feel like hypocrites but that is Satan again piling on the guilt and shame. The only way to true freedom is coming clean with God and letting Him cleanse us, again.

“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
1 John 1:9 English Standard Version

There is nothing that can separate us from God, except us.

“For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Romans 8:35-39 English Standard Version

Don’t run, don’t hide, just look Jesus in the eyes and say sorry. It is what He wants most from us when we sin. It seems scary at first, but the more I do this, the more it just becomes part of my nature. All He wants is to have a relationship with us.

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