GENESIS 3:9
Hide-and-seek is a popular children’s game in which players conceal themselves in a set environment, to be found by one or more seekers.
Most people have fond memories of playing the game as children. Yet sometimes in life the fear of being found is not fun but is rooted in a deep instinct to flee.
As children of a fallen world, we are prone to play the game of hide-and-seek with God. It is more like a game of pretending to hide – because He sees all the way through to our thoughts and actions.
God continues to seek and call us, in the same way that He called to the first human who hid out of fear: “Where art thou?” (Genesis 3:9). He wants us to come out of hiding and come back into relationship with Him.
It may seem difficult coming out after all we have done. But there, within the safe boundaries of our Father’s care, any of us, no matter what we have done or failed to do, can be fully known and loved.
