"My Hidding Place"

"Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust." (Psalms 104:29)
Beside the fact that there is really no where else to go, our Lord is the source of the peace and joy that we need to be the blessed people that He has created us to be. It might not appear as though we are there yet, but we are never really any more saved than the day in which we were first born into His Kingdom. Between that time and the day we depart this earth, there is really nothing different in the distance between us and eternity; it was all made assured on that day when we first believed. That is pretty much what I am feeling God speaking into my heart today. This is really not a verse that speaks of something that is wrong or negative; this verse is speaking about what is right and truth; it is where we want to be in our understanding and our relationship with our Heavenly Father. This is the cry of Jesus from the cross, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" His cry was not a cry of His Father forsaking Him, for He understood better than anyone else that the curse was being broken by His death on that cross; His cry was a cry of victory, of completion, and a quote from the beginning of Psalms 22, a Psalm about "Anguish and Praise." It might not seem as though those two words should go together, or that being used together as an expression should make any sense whatsoever; but the truth be told, they are the two words which describe the accomplishment of God's redemption. If God hides His face from us, then we should feel troubled, to say the least; but that is not going to happen, not for those that have been washed to the blood of His Son! In that moment, as Jesus hung there upon that cross, that was the last time that God looked upon my sin, as He turned His face from the Son, seeing Him take upon Himself the entire sins of the whole world; and not just the sins of that time, but the sins of every generation, from Adam to the very last child to be born upon this earth. All of our sins were placed upon Jesus Christ! For those that have been washed in His blood, our sins are gone! As for the second part of this verse: we are not afraid! Much like Paul spoke about in his manner of looking upon his death, saying, "For me to live is Christ, and it die is gain," we are between two places of existence; anguish and praise is the banner we are waiving, for all to see...
"Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later. For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are. Against its will, all creation was subjected to God's curse. But with eager hope, the creation looks forward to the day when it will join God's children in glorious freedom from death and decay. For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to this present time. And we believers also groan, even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, for we long for our bodies to be released fro sin and suffering. We, too, wait with eager hope for the day when God will give us our full rights as his adopted children, including the new bodies he has promised us. We were given this hope when we were saved. (If we already have something, we don't need to hope for it. But if we look forward to something we don't yet have, we must wait patiently and confidently.)" (Romans 8:18-25) NLT