Joshua 22:1-34; Isaiah 15:1-16:14; 2 Thessalonians 1:1-12
Adam and his wife hid. Genesis 3:8
We hid. Isaiah 53:3
I hid not. Isaiah 50:6
In the Garden, Adam and Eve hid themselves because they were ashamed of their sin. At the cross, we hid our faces because we were ashamed of God’s Son. We know too that God would be well within His right to eternally hide His face from us (see Deut. 32:20). But what does Isaiah prophesy of Christ on the cross? “I hid not my face from shame and spitting” (50:6). Our Lord took it all and the judgment that accompanied it. For those who have received His salvation, we discover that, wonder of wonders, instead of hiding from God, we now hide in God (Col. 3:3). —Brian Cretney
In the tempests of life, on its wide, heaving sea,
Thou blest Rock of Ages, I’m hiding in Thee. —W. O. Cushing