"Hide in Plain Sight"

"If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall light about me." (Psalms 139:11)

  I thought about making 11 and 12 one post, but they are both separate subjects; one is about you and me, while the other is about God. So, if you think that you can somehow hide from God or do something that might be hidden from Him, think again, you are always in the light, even in the dark! I guess we get that idea because we imagine our Heavenly Father in heaven, far far away from earth and unable to witness every single insane thing we might conjure up in our boredom; if that be the case, we have missed out on some pretty amazing things about the greatness of God, most of which involve us believing that He can do anything and that He knows everything! I had a conversation yesterday above my post from yesterday morning, and I was a little bit surprised that the concept of believing in Jesus sometimes does not come with a set of standards. What do people think it means to believe in the only begotten Son of God? To believe that He existed? To believe that He died and rose again? Yes, those are all pretty important things to start with; but the power of the cross, that which takes away my sin, if I cannot see the finished work completed on that cross, then I have not yet believed! There is really no difference between that believing and the believing that God is able to see your every move. If you think there is, then I would like to here your reasoning. After all, what is the point of total forgiveness of our sin, if He cannot see everything that we have done? Seriously, how does that even work? Maybe it was the way God asked, "Adam, Where art thou?" That could have given some of us the idea that God could not see him hiding in the bushes; but I seriously doubt that God was questioning the position of his body: God was asking about the location of his heart! To be perfectly clear, this is about coming totally clean before God; primarily, because we really do not have a choice: He knows everything already, so what is the point of trying to hide anything? Might be part of who we are, the lack of believing just how powerful God really is; because there is too much we all have in common when it comes to picking and choosing when God is looking at what we do or that He sees how we treat one another...

"And so the Lord says, "These people say they are mine. They honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. And their worship of me is nothing but man-made rules learned by rote. Because of this, I will once again astound these hypocrites with amazing wonders. The wisdom of the wise will pass away, and the intelligence of the intelligent will disappear." What sorrow awaits those who try to hide their plans from the LORD, who do evil deeds in the dark! "The LORD can't see us," they say. "He doesn't know what's going on!" How foolish can you be? He is the Potter, and he is certainly greater than you, the clay! Should the created thing say of the one who made it, "He didn't make me"? Does the jar ever say, "The potter who made me is stupid"?" (Isaiah 29:13-16) NLT