About a year ago, I was on a long car ride, and the whole time, the song You Are My Hiding Place was playing in my head. Do you know it?
You are my Hiding Place
You always fill my heart With songs of deliverance Whenever I am afraid I will trust in you
I will trust in you Let the weak say
"I am strong, In the strength of my Lord"
I will trust in You...
Those of you familiar with the song will know it can be sung as a Round, with new voices joining in. The song never really ends. That's fitting, I think.
While this song was playing in my head, God showed me a vision. I was in a cave system on a rocky shoreline. A massive winter storm was raging against the shore where I was at. Waves were surging in and out of the caves, and I had to use the flashes of lightning through gaps overhead to keep from getting soaked. It was frightening. But then I realized I was sheltered in the caves. Had I been on the surface, on the outside, I would have been exposed to not only surf, but to rain and cold and 50mph winds. Here, I was sheltered.
Sometimes we are battered by storms, and we don't even realize that even at that moment of Trial and Fury, God is in fact, sheltering us. As he did with Moses, hiding him in the cleft of the rock, (Exodus 33) while His glory passed by.
In my life, the Covid storm battered me, and then Jesus calmed that storm. But God was reminding me that while fresh storms are immanent, I am sheltered in the cleft of the rock.
Whenever I am afraid
I will trust in you.
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