We all at times feel the need to just get away from everything in life. It seems that the day to day life can sometimes overwhelm us in all that we try to do.
We also know that it is hard to just leave everything and go off somewhere, just to have some quiet time, by ourselves, but with all the technology that we have today, like Skype, SMS, e-mail, Face Book, Twitter, Four Square, Google Talk, etc. Heaven forbid, that we leave the house and forget to take our Smart Phones with us to keep in touch. Why; we can even be tracked on Latitude by our Peeps, and don’t forget to check in when we get to our destination. My; how we hate being out of touch.
On the other hand, there are those times when we just want some (me) time to just be by ourselves and enjoy the quietness that seems to elude us most of the time, and we just feel like hiding where no one knows where we have gone.
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Today; I want to share three stories of Great Men of God from the Old Testament that had to do just that. They needed to get away for fear of their lives, when the circumstances they were facing caused them to have to hide out as it were.
You remember Moses? (No; not Charlton Heston) Who was the great leader of the children of Israel? He was a basket case. His mother had to hide him for three months while he was an infant. Someone wanted to kill him. In later years, he went into the desert, and was there forty years, hiding from the ruler of Egypt.
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Exodus 2:2-3 KJV
(2) And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
(3) And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
How about David? You know the young man who killed a giant, a bear and a lion, and was also known as “A man after God’s own heart? Well his life was also in danger at one point and he ended up hiding in a cave. Check it out…
1 Samuel 22:1-2 KJV
(1) David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went down thither to him.
(2) And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
The last man I want to look at today is Elijah, who was a prophet of God. At one point, his life was also in danger due to someone wanting to kill him. He ended up hiding out by a brook, the exact place where God told him to go. Here is the story….
1 Kings 17:1-4 KJV
(1) And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
(2) And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,
(3) Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
(4) And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
We; like the above listed examples, need to go and hide ourselves for a while, just to escape the trials of life that can overwhelm us.
Let me give you a tip on where to go…this place is taken from God’s Word in the Book of Psalms…it is a place where you can find rest, joy, happiness, forgiveness and most of all peace in a troubled world.
Psalms 91:1-6 KJV
(1) He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
(2) I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
(3) Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
(4) He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
(5) Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;
(6) Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
Please give it a try.
Blessings:
