Where were you hiding?

I love 80's music. I love just about every genre of 80's music. I love the sound of the rock and roll hairbands like Motley Crue and Poison, I love the pop music from Loverboy and Rick Springfield and I even like the old school rap from the likes of Tone Loc and Biz Markie. But the one style I really like is the 80's alternative music, the international groups like U2, The Clash, The Cure and so many more. Within this style there was one particular band that was heralded as possible the next U2 but they just never really exploded like U2. The group was The Alarm. They recorded some great songs like sixty-eight guns, Rain in the summertime, and The Stand. Listening to the radio on my way home from work the other day I heard another one that was a great song but just never made it to the top of the charts. It was called "Where were you hiding when the storm broke?"

Born into a war and peace
Forced to choose between a right and wrong
Each man kills the thing he loves
For better or for worse
Face to face with a ragged truth
Mixed up and torn in two
And turned your back on the only thing
That could save you from yourself

WHERE WERE YOU HIDING
WHEN THE STORM BROKE
WHEN THE RAIN BEGAN TO FALL
WHEN THE THUNDER AND THE LIGHTNING STRUCK
AND THE RAIN AND THE FOUR WINDS DID HOWL

After all time building up
Comes inevitable knocking down
(ONE BY ONE )
Comes receivers liars gamblers
Pick pocket entourage
(TWO BY TWO)
Selling out is a cardinal sin
Sinning with a safety net (THREE BY THREE)
They say that all things come in threes
Here comes the third degree

WHERE WERE YOU HIDING
WHEN THE STORM BROKE
WHEN THE RAIN BEGAN TO FALL
WHEN THE THUNDER AND THE LIGHTNING STRUCK
AND THE RAIN AND THE FOUR WINDS DID HOWL

All cards are marked
And all fates will collide
The truth is the truth
Or the truth is surely a lie
Get back in your shelter
If you can't come down off the fence
And one more question
Where were you?
Where were you?

The chorus of this song is what got stuck in my head. It reminded me of a passage from the book of Psalms:

Psalms 139: 7-12

7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.

11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,”
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.

We cannot hide from God nor can God lose sight of where we are and what we are going through. He is a great God who sees us through the difficult times as well as a God who keeps an eye on us even when we don't want him to. Take comfort in knowing this is the God who reins and rules in Heaven and on Earth!