You can run but you cannot hide

How often have you heard - or even used the phrase "You can run but you cannot hide" ?  In one of the greatest heavyweight boxing fights of all time, (Joe Loius vs. Billy Conn in 1941) Conn would not gain weight for the challenge, saying instead that he would rely on a 'hit and run' strategy.  In response he received the now famous line from Louis. From sporting events to Law enforcement or in casual conversation, this phrase has never meant as much as it does in Psalm 139: 7-10.

Matthew Henry's well-known commentary originally published in 1706 describes this Psalm as one of the most excellent of all the psalms of David.  Being always under the watchful eye of God is indeed a sobering thought and no flight can remove us out of God's presence.

Charles H. Spurgeon comments:

From the sight of God he cannot be hidden, but that is not all,—from the immediate, actual, constant presence of God he cannot be withdrawn. We must be, whether we will it or not, as near to God as our soul is to our body. This makes it dreadful work to sin; for we offend the Almighty to his face, and commit acts of treason at the very foot of his throne. Go from him, or flee from him we cannot: neither by patient travel nor by hasty flight can we withdraw from the all surrounding Deity. His mind is in our mind; himself within ourselves. His spirit is over our spirit; our presence is ever in his presence. Whether we rise up or lie down, take our wing or make our bed, we shall find God near us. What an awful thought, that some men seem resolved to take up their night's abode in hell, a night which shall know no morning.

God is a Spirit, and therefore it is folly to think that because we cannot see him he cannot see us. Just another reminder to live "Coram Deo"