God’s Hiding Place
Psalm 64:2 – “Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked.”
Read: Psalm 64:1–6 [Suggested also: Psalm 31:1–24]
In 1971 Corrie Ten Boom published her biography entitled The Hiding Place. During the Second World War the Ten Boom family built a hiding place in their home for Jews. Even though the home was eventually raided and the family imprisoned, the Germans never found the hiding place. The Jews there were kept safe. The sad reality is that hiding places are necessary when wicked people have power.
In Psalm 64 David is looking for a hiding place. Wicked people are in power. There are throngs of evildoers around him, plotting their schemes in secret. They launch their attacks without warning. David feels completely exposed and so he prays to God, “Hide me.”
Child of God, do you ever find yourself praying this prayer? “O God…hide me.” What makes you feel vulnerable? Who causes you to experience alarm? Whatever it is, be encouraged, because God has his hiding place. Where he hides you, Satan cannot destroy 
you. Where he hides you, wicked men cannot destroy your soul. It is true that wicked men can destroy your body (as Jesus taught in Matt. 10:28), but they cannot touch your soul, for God has his hiding place.
So where is God’s hiding place? It is with him. God himself is your hiding place. “In the cover of your presence you hide them from the plots of men” (Ps. 31:20). The cover of God’s presence is a hiding place for you. God is present in heaven where he sits enthroned in power, and at his right hand is Jesus Christ, your Saviour. Jesus Christ was not always in God’s hiding place. When evildoers plotted against him, there was no hiding place for him. When wicked men met in secret to take his life they were successful because God forsook him. Why? So that he might forever be your hiding place.
Listen to the apostle Paul in Colossians 3:3, “For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.” Your life is hidden with Christ in God. Christ is your hiding place! He is the cover of God’s presence hiding you from every conspiracy of Satan. So, do not dread the devil’s power, for the power of God in Christ will continue to keep you safe.