Hide and Seek

I wanted to post my whole summer update here, but I cannot figure out how to make that happen. Sooo...I will post bits and pieces. Here is bit number 1 :)

Learning to Seek

Have you ever noticed how children love to play hide and seek? There is something exhilarating about searching for someone, never knowing when they will jump out. Even as children, we know that the person we are seeking will eventually come out of hiding. They will not hide forever, because they want to be found. Well, guess what? God wants to be sought, and He too, wants to be found. He says just that in the Bible. In Jeremiah 29:13 He says, “ And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.” And as if finding Him is not reward enough for our search, it says in Psalm34:10, “...but those who seek the Lord shall not lack any good thing.”

So, what does it look like to seek Him? This is what I am trying to figure out. I am finding that, for me, it means to dig into His word and look for Him in it. It means to spend time alone with Him, listening to His Holy Spirit. It means to look for what He is doing in the lives of others and partner with Him, whether it is by listening, encouraging, giving of time or finances, or praying for them. It says in Proverbs 25:2 “It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter”.I desire to search out God. If it is His glory to conceal a matter, surely it will be glorious to search Him out in it. And He promises that we will find Him. He says it again in Matthew 7:7-8, “ 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 he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.”

I don't know about you, but that promise excites me. If I am willing to go after God, He will let me find Him. It is like a game of hide and seek, where you know that you will win. Only this time, the reward is not the praises of your friends, the reward is the Lord.,the Living God, the King of kings. And, the reward is not just hoped for, it is promised!What an extraordinary promise!

It is my prayer that the Lord will encourage you and entice your heart to seek Him out. He will be found. He will fill your heart with good things like His love, His joy, His peace and much more. It will be the best game of hide and seek you have ever enjoyed.