There are some things I’d rather just keep to myself.  This is an impossible feat given the fact that all three of my children are broadcasters.  Just ask them a question about me.  I can’t tell you how many times they have thrown me under the bus.   They are my backseat private eyes, always waiting for me to give them their latest supper time news story.

One day, I was driving them to class and found myself in a sticky situation at a stop light.  The lane I was in was under construction and bordered by those big orange barrels.   I knew my big ole Tahoe was not going to fit in between the barrels and the car next to me.  The car behind me must have been convinced otherwise from the sound of his horn honking at me.  I couldn’t take the pressure any more.  I put my foot on the gas and slowly began to try squeezing through.  The honker behind me was wrong.  The side of my car scraped the barrel as I passed.  The broadcasters in the back seat laughed hysterically all the way to class.  I gave them the “what happens in the car stays in the car” speech but I knew it was a lost cause. “How am I going to explain this one to my husband who can tell people how many miles are on my car without even walking outside to check the odometer?”  He loves to take care of my car.  It’s his pride and joy.  Making sure I have safe wheels is one of his top priorities.  I walked up and down the side of my car looking for signs of evidence.  Not even a scratch.  WOO HOO!  I was free and clear!  

I should have known better.  The first thing he asked me when he came home from work was “what’s that orange stuff on the side of your car?”  Out the door we go and there, stuck right to the side of my car, was a big chunk of the barrel.   How in the world did I miss that?  I must have walked around it with my eyes closed.  I was certain that the broadcasters must have told on me.  They didn’t.  I was so busy trying to keep from giving an account to my husband that I actually walked right passed it.  

The truth always comes out.  Jeremiah 23:23-24 asks “… can anyone hide in secret places so that I cannot see him?” declares the LORD.  “Do not I fill heaven and earth?”  Friends, here’s a big news flash-THERE IS NO SECRET PLACE.  He knows and we know he knows.  Jesus said “in this world you will have trouble.  But take heart! I have overcome the world.”   Isn’t that awesome?  He gives us hope.  My prayer is that you know there is nothing your hiding that is so bad that God cannot redeem it or overcome it. The messes we find ourselves in are no surprise to our Savior and they have already been covered by his blood.   Let him take care of it for you and stop hiding!

With love in Him,

Tanie Ree

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