calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?”
"Fall on us and hide us" — that's what people say when they'd rather be crushed by rock than seen. It's an odd thing to picture: an entire crowd begging a mountain to bury them alive, all to avoid a face. But if you've ever wanted to disappear rather than be found out, the scene isn't as far away as it looks.
Most of us have a version of this. Not mountains and rocks, but the smaller equivalents — the deflecting, the busyness, the scrolling, anything that keeps a certain question from landing. The question underneath this verse is blunt: can you actually stand in front of what's real about yourself and not run?
This isn't here to make you feel small. It's here because the alternative to hiding is being seen and still standing — which is a different thing entirely than being seen and being destroyed. The rest of this story exists to make room for exactly that difference.
What would it take for you to stop running long enough to actually look at what you've been avoiding?
A short video on this is coming soon — for now, read on.