Hide and Seek

Hide and seek. That was always a staple game growing up in our neighborhood, except we didn’t call it hide and seek, we called it “ghost in the graveyard”. It’s the opposite of hide and seek. Instead of one person counting and everyone else going to hide, one person hid and the rest of the kids tried to find them. We used to have about 25 kids playing in our neighborhood each night during the summer and one game could last all the way until it was time to go home.

The game sort of went like this: one person would hide somewhere in the neighborhood and the rest of the kids would go looking for them. There was a set location that was considered home base. If one of the searchers saw the person hiding, they would yell “ghost in the graveyard” and everyone would run back to home base trying not to get tagged. As you could imagine, there were lots of false alarm calls and the group would have to start all over. It’s some of the best memories I have growing up in my neighborhood as a kid.

We try to play hide and seek with God sometimes in our lives too. Definitely before we became Christians and even sometimes after we have. It is nothing new for God, and there is never a time we can actually hide from Him. Adam and Eve tried it in the Garden and were unsuccessful. “And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. But the LORD God called to the man and said to him, "Where are you?" And he said, "I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself." - Genesis 3:8-10. God didn’t ask Adam where he was because He didn’t know, He asked so that Adam would admit he was hiding because of his sin.

I remember how hard I used to seek after those that were hiding somewhere in my neighborhood. God wants us to seek Him with just as much diligence. “I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.“ - Proverbs 8:17. We seek after God in our prayer lives, we seek after Him by studying His Word and we seek after Him by being around other likeminded people. “But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.” - Matthew 6:33.

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.” - Matthew 7:7-8. Are you seeking after a relationship with God?  Are you seeking after His will in your lives?  Are you seeking after other likeminded Christians to grow with?  God wants you to seek after Him with all your heart, with all your body and with all your mind.

Have a great day and God bless.