The Lord “our refuge from one generation to
another” also knows our secret sins. No wonder the psalmist rightly fears God’s
indignation. We prefer anonymity where sins are concerned and even though we suspect
others are as consumed by sin as we are we like to believe no one suspects the
same of us. But the Lord knows the things we hide even from ourselves. The
memories that still make us shudder with shame. A lifetime of things done and
left undone, said and left unsaid set before the Lord in whose anger “all our
days are gone and our years come to an end like a sigh.” But the truth about us
is not as great as the truth about God “our refuge” who knowing us full well
still satisfies us in the morning with unfailing love teaching us the gift of
each day so that our hearts weighed down by sin might be lightened by wisdom.
And if by God's unfailing love we were made more wise we would no doubt spend
less time with secret sins and more time dwelling with the Lord.
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