Hiding Places

LifeSong Notes

Keith Menshouse

What’s Eating Jonah? – “Hiding Places”

“But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid the fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.” Jonah 1:3 (NKJV) page 1497

WHY DO WE HIDE?

• We hide when we feel .

“When the cool evening breezes were blowing, the man and his wife heard the Lord God walking about in the garden. So they hid from the Lord God among the trees.” Genesis 3:8 (NLT) page 12

• We hide when we feel .
• Jonah hid because he didn’t want to be .

WHERE DO WE HIDE?

• We all can find a boat headed “ ”.
• There are two that always know your hiding place – you and .

“Where can I go to get away from your Spirit? Where can I run from you? If I go up to the heavens, you are there. If I lie down in the grave, you are there. If I rise with the sun in the east and settle in the west beyond the sea, even there you would guide me. With your right hand you would hold me.” Psalm 139:7-10 (NCV) page 1001

• Wherever we hide there are others who .

“But the Lord sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship was about to be broken up.” Jonah 1:4

WHO ARE WE HIDING FROM?

• God wants me to hide Him, not Him.

“You are my hiding place and my shield; I hope in Your word.”

Psalm 119:114 (NKJV) page 991

• The truth is that I hide from the one I fear the most – .

“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; Who can know it?  I, the Lord, search the heart,”

Jeremiah 17:9-10 (NKJV) page 1251