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You are a hiding place for me;<\/strong> \u201cHiding place\u201d is sether<\/em> in Hebrew, meaning a place of covering and secrecy, where troubles and enemies cannot find me. I know this in my head, but I had forgotten what it meant in my life till I read a psalm commentary by an early church father.<\/p>\n Theodore of Mopsuestia (d. 428), Commentary on Psalms 1-81<\/em>, linked Psalm 32 to King Hezekiah. \u201cWhat?!\u201d I was flabbergasted, \u201cHow is Hezekiah linked to Psalm 32, especially verse 7!\u201d Theodore said this verse pointed to the fact the God was Hezekiah\u2019s refuge when the Assyrians came to inflict him and that God surrounded him from troubles due to his illness.<\/p>\n Then I heard God, \u201cI am your hiding place. I shielded and protected you when you cried out to me 15 years ago and delivered you.\u201d I remember singing the song You are My Hiding Place<\/em> in my head because I couldn\u2019t sing with my vocal cords. I remember that God healed King Hezekiah and gave him 15 more years.<\/p>\n Similarly, God had healed me of my thyroid cancer and surrounded me with \u201csongs of deliverance\u201d. It was through this illness that God delivered me from my \u201cspiritual death\u201d. I had known the Lord in my college days but when I embarked on my career, all I wanted was a partnership in the firm and to be rich and live luxuriously. But none of it mattered in the face of cancer. I confessed my sin, repented, and re-dedicated my life to Christ Jesus again. God not only delivered me, but eventually, he also brought my loved ones\u2014my parents, parents-in-law, and my siblings-in-law\u2014to know Christ.<\/p>\n How could I have forgotten, even if for a little while, of what God has done for me? It took Theodore of Mopsuestia to bring this back to me 15 years later. God reminded me to testify of him, especially to people who need to know him also as their sether<\/em>, their hiding place. After all, this is what the psalmist does at the end of the psalm, when he calls on others not to be like a mule but to come near to God (v. 9). He is not just my hiding place, he is also yours. Come, hide in him and testify to others about him.<\/p>\n Janet Tan <\/strong> [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Testify that God is your Hiding Place Psalm 32:7 You are a hiding place for me; From distress you deliver me, With shouts of rescue you surround me \u201cHiding place\u201d is sether in Hebrew, meaning a place of covering and secrecy, where troubles and enemies cannot find me. I know this in my head, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lent2019","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nFrom distress you deliver me,
\nWith shouts of rescue you surround me<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n(Occasional Student)<\/strong><\/p>\n