TUESDAY, April 13, 2010

HIDING PLACE (Sara Groves)

Early when the day is new

Before the stirring,

I will come to talk to You and

Confess the ways I’m broken

To recall the words You’ve spoken

And to try to comprehend the love You have for me

You are my hiding place,

You fill my broken heart with songs

Songs of deliverance, You sing of how the weak grow strong

And I believe You for You save me from my darkness and my shame

And I believe You for I hear Your song of beauty and grace

You never meant for me to walk alone

You are always for me

As the truest lover of my soul, You hear my desperate calling

You have kept my feet from falling

You have set me on this rock on which I’m standing now

You are my hiding place

You are my hiding place

And I believe

And I believe

I sure didn’t “feel” like getting up this morning.  I truly wanted to crawl back into bed and rest.  Nothing particularly wrong, just a desire to “lay off work” today.  Wouldn’t you know Lord, that the first sentence of this song talks about getting up early in the morning before the “stirring” and talk to You?  You are so personal, Lord and I love that.  If we look for You, we can find You.  So I abandon my flesh this morning and Praise You and tell You how much I appreciate You.  I “feel” surrounded by Your love for me.  You are my hiding place.  My soul is stirred and moved by Your Presence in my life.  This is the most important part of my day.  I believe by faith that You are sitting here in this room with me.  The Scriptures say, “Where could I go that You are not there?”

You never meant for me to walk alone.  “Before the stirring”.  You set me on this rock on which I’m standing.  I “need” to stop everything and just spend time meditating on this song.  There isn’t anything really going on in my mind, except the realization of how much I am truly loved.  To realize that the whole world and everyone in it could turn their back on me and You, Oh, Lord will never turn away from me.  Scriptures say that I am the apple of Your eye.  You are my hiding place.  You are where I go to get the breath for my soul.  I will stop breathing and die if I don’t have Your presence in my life. 

You have kept my feet from falling, I believe You for You save me from my darkness and shame.  My friends, if You get this song from me, stop and meditate on it before you start your day.  That is what I am going to do.  If you don’t get this from me, look it up on ITunes or something else.  It will minister to you.  So right now, I am

Meditating,

Mary Ann