Have You Hidden Them?

I love to write, even if I'm not sure that someone will read it, I enjoy writing.  The act of putting the words on paper, as I write lately I find that God gives me thoughts on verses I've read or studied.  At other times He will give me an idea and as I'm writing He things brings a verse or verses to my mind. 


I may not realize that I even remember that verse, yet it will come to my mind.  Sometimes I'll remember the exact location, chapter and verse.  At other times the memory is more vague, I'll know it is in a specific book but have to look up the chapter and verse to verify it.  And sometimes I just remember what the verse says and maybe if it is Old Testament or New.


But I do remember it.  It makes the words of Psalms 119:11 come alive to me 'Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.'  Those verses that I learned in Sunday School or VBS,  the memory cards that I've carried around to learn God's word brings them to memory when I need them.


I remember once a number of years ago witnessing to a young man, he was seeking but he had allowed so many things to cloud his judgment.  He was looking for a way to make whatever he chose to believe right.  By his own testimony, there were several times God had put people directly into his path to witness to him but still he wasn't convinced.  His name was Zac.


Even though we were strangers we exchanged contact information.  I've reached out to him several times but he has never come to Christ.  I wonder many days, what could have said that I didn't say.  Was there something that I missed when he was asking questions.  I don't know but some 10 plus years later God still brings him to mind and I still pray for him.  I wish you would pray for him too.  Our last conversation he was heading into some major new age beliefs.  My heart breaks for him.  How much God showed his love to him, by putting people in his path to tell him about Jesus.  But he never accepted him. 


One of the things I remember the most about that meeting was the verses that God brought to mind as we talked.  Things that I thought were forgotten, verses I had not read or said in recent years.  That is why God tells us to hide His word in our heart, so when someone is there who needs it He can bring them to our memory.  I haven't hid nearly enough words of God in my heart.  I haven't prayed for Zac as faithfully as I should, yet in spite of that, God can still use me.  God still loves Zac and nothing would make my heart sing for joy any more than to one day learn that he gave his heart to Christ. 


But the one thing I know, Zac cannot stand before God and say no one ever told him.  He can't claim he didn't know.  God took those words that I'd hidden in my heart as a child and He used them to show Zac the way if he was willing to follow.