A break from the silence!

I was hoping to have posted over the weekend in my visit to Harvey Mudd, and I have no excuse other than sleep for the past couple days. However, as I read from R.C. Sproul's "The Character Of God" this past weekend, I came across a quote I quite liked.

There are many things in my life that I do not want to put under the gaze of Christ. Yet I know there is nothing hidden from Him. He knows me better than my wife knows me. And yet He loves me. This is the most amazing thing of all about God's grace. It would be one thing for Him to love us if we could fool Him into thinking that we were better than we actually are. But He knows better. He knows all there is to know about us, including those things that could destroy our reputation. He is minutely and acutely aware of every skeleton in our closet. And He loves us.

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To be known by God is our highest privilege. The deepest folly of man is to flee from the eye of God. Hiding from God is as foolish as it is futile. There is no adequate hiding place. We can call for the mountains to fall upon us and the hills to cover us. But the eye of God can see through mountains and penetrate the cloak of the hills.

There is only one adequate cloak for our shame -- the righteousness of Christ. Our nakedness and shame are covered by a shield that no guilt can pierce. Our lives are hid from Him. He is our refuge. He who knows the fugitive's crimes gives the fugitive a hiding place.