I remember when only a boy, my father calling me to him and challenging me, yea, accusing me of a particular action. I was, of course, guilty, and had brought displeasure to him. Yet, at the time I thought no one knew. I had sought to do my best to conceal the thing. I had not confided in many. However, someone had seen me, reported me and I was found out. I expect there are some reading this paper and your mind is now going back to incidents in your life when you too were found out. To be found out by parents, colleagues, friends, family, etc. may be embarrassing and bring temporary pain but there is a far bigger issue at stake and that is to be found out by God.
The Bible states, "…ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out," Numbers 32.33. When he sinned in the garden of Eden, Adam hid among the trees seeking to hide from God but he was found out, see Genesis 3. In Joshua 7 there is the story about a man called Achan who thought he had committed the perfect crime, but he was found out. None can escape being found out. There was a company of men and they had to exclaim, "or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants…" Genesis 44.16. We could continue with such illustrations but when we remember we are dealing with the omnipresent, omnipotent, all wise, all seeing God then we must acknowledge that we too will be found out.
You may think that you can be different and escape any dealings with God, but we are reminded, "Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in His sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of Him with whom we have to do," Hebrews 4.13. His sight is undeterred, undiverted and there is no way we can cover our lives from Him. Three times in the book of Revelation we are told that His eyes are "like unto a flame of fire," 1.14, 2.18, 19.12.
The consequence of being found out is dreadful. We will meet God in our sins and that will demand His judgment which is eternal. The picture is bleak and foreboding. Is there any way that our sins can be covered from His eye? The Psalmist knew a way for he could say, "Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered," Psalm 32.1. Again, "Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of Thy people. Thou hast covered all their sin," Psalm 85.2.
How can this be so? There is only one basis and that is the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the Son of God who died for our sins upon the cross of Calvary. He had no sins but "Christ died for the ungodly … Christ died for us … Christ died for our sins," Romans 5.6,8; 1 Corinthians 15.3. The possibility of your sins being covered has been provided by God and you are invited to take this to yourself by believing in the Lord Jesus Christ. You can reject it and try to substitute a covering of your own but God says, "Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin," Isaiah 30.1. Also, Proverbs 28.13, "he that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy."
You can enjoy the blessings of an eternal shelter by trusting in the blessed One who died to bring salvation. Isaiah 32.2, "a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land."