Hide and seek

Hide and seek

Bible: Genesis 3:1-10

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But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?” (V.9).

“He’s going to find me,” I thought. I felt my little heart beat faster as I heard my five year old cousin’s footsteps round the corner. He was coming closer. Five steps away. Three. Two. “Found you!” Hide and Seek! Most of us remember playing the game as little kids. Yet sometimes in life the worry of being found (or found out) isn’t fun, but terrifying. Run and hide. People may dislike what they see. Living in this messed up world, and sometimes doing stupid things, we often end up playing a mixed up game of Hide and Seek with God. It’s more like a game of pretending to hide—because either way, He sees all the way through to our messy insides. We both know it, though we like to pretend
He can’t really see. Yet God continues to call to us: “Come out. I want to see you, even the stuff you’re hiding.” It’s similar to what He said to Adam and Eve, the first people to ever hide from Him: “Where are you?” (GENESIS 3:9). It was a warm invitation formed in a challenging question. God hadn’t lost Adam and Eve. He asked the question because He wanted them to ask it themselves—and realise they were in the wrong place and needed to come back to Him. It may seem far too risky to show God all of ourselves. But there, within the safety of our Father’s care, any of us, no matter what we’ve done or failed to do, can be fully known and loved

DON’T HIDE FROM GOD—HIDE IN GOD!

Youth Edition – Our Daily Bread Ministries