What’s In Your Closet? … Hello Hump Day readers. This question about your closet has a lot to do with what you put in your closet! Here’s a few funny ones I found from “My Dictionary Scoop” that I get daily. It’s fun and it’s a great way to learn as well. Let’s start with some interesting closets:

1) In Virginia, a homeowner unearthed a 150-year-old Civil War cannonball while digging. The artillery shell, found near the site of a historical battle, was over 150 years old. Despite their age, unexploded ordnance can still be active and ready to blow up-yikes! 2) In 2017, a man in Pombal, Portugal, uncovered the fossilized remains of a sauropod dinosaur while doing construction work on his property. They were a species of plant-eating herbivores and are among the largest land animals ever to exist! 3) In Massachusetts, construction work at a schoolyard uncovered a 124-year-old time copper box capsule-the size of a shoebox. It had newspapers from 1894 with fragments of Civil War military uniforms, etc. It was donated to a local historical society for evaluation and preservation-good thinking. 4) In 1978, two Los Angeles children reportedly discovered a buried Ferrari in their backyard which had been stolen years earlier. The wild story made national news, but it was later revealed that the story was a cover-up by an informant who tipped off the police about the car’s location. The story was a plan to shield the snitch’s identity. 5) While renovating their home in Ames, New York, a couple uncovered a stash of Prohibition-era whiskey hidden inside the walls and floorboards. Bundles wrapped in tattered paper contained six bottles each of “Old Smuggler” Gaelic Whiskey, dating back to 1923. The house had once been owned by a German bootlegger named Adolph Humpfner, who undoubtedly left behind the secret stash for the future which quickly went to nothing when Adolph died in a car accident.

I suspect you may not have such things in your closet, but the real question about all of this is “Are we trying to hide something from God?” Ed Jarrett is a writer about all things mainly about our connection with the Lord. He loves to share Scriptures and it helps gives him all kinds of ideas how those Scriptures pertain to our lives. He is a blogger at ‘A Clay Jar’ and I am thinking of blogging there as well. You learn a lot…even what’s in your closet!

Jeremiah said “Do you people think that I am some local deity and not the transcendent God?” the Lord asks. “Do you really think anyone can hide himself where I cannot see him?” the Lord asks. “Do you not know that I am everywhere?” 23:23-24 [NET]

Many of the false gods people have worshipped throughout history, including Jeremiah’s time, were limited in both time and space. However, that is not true of God. One of his attributes is omnipresence, meaning he is everywhere, and his presence fills the creation. And being everywhere, is there anything he does not know?

This short passage does not just apply to false prophets. Each of us has our secret places, the inner recesses of our hearts, minds-and closets. The thoughts, feelings, and motives we keep hidden from other people. And we are often guilty of thinking they are also hidden from God. We know it’s wrong and we know God knows what is in our secret places. None of us can hide them from God and we know that God knows all the ugliness that we keep locked away inside. God knows the unhealthy thoughts and feelings we struggle with. And yes, God knows why we act and respond the way we do.

So, is there a remedy? Yep, from Jeremiah who reminded the people then and still today, that our God is omnipresence and there is NOWHERE you can hide. So, let’s clean out our ‘closet’ and enjoy the presence of our incredible God. Welcome God in and you will be filled with so much joy that you will never need to hide anything in a closet again! AMEN.