Hide and Seek

“Hidden in life’s trials are the treasures we’ve been seeking.”
Loren Thornburg

Hide and seek is a popular kids game where everyone except the person designated as “it” tries to find the best hiding place to avoid being found first and being “it.” What I find from that game is the hide and seek of life. Often we need to be “it” more, seeking the things of life that are hidden. They hide in unusual places that we would not have guessed. It’s not as simple as looking under beds and behind closet doors. Maybe we need to start looking in the places we thought least likely or least desired...the trials that we face. For it is there that I am finding I have found the things that become treasures. What I thought was a set back becomes great provision. The relationship break up that frees us to find someone better fit for us, the job we didn’t get that keeps us seeking to find an even better one. There are blessings to be found. Don’t miss them. They might be hiding.

“Don’t shuffle along, eyes to the ground absorbed with the things right in front of you. Look up, and be alert to what is going on around Christ--that’s where the action is. See things from His perspective...be content with obscurity like Christ.”
Colossians 3:2,4 MSG

We need to be seeking the things the Lord is about. That means we need to see things from His perspective which is so vastly different from our own. It won’t be found right in front of us. Christ is hidden in obscure places. He is calling us to seek and find Christ for who He is and not for who we want Him to be. It may seem odd or obscure but it is always good and always better, we just don’t always see it as He does until later. The more we learn to seek Him the more we find Him in His obscure places. He is not trying to remain hidden but He is inviting us to real life which is hidden in Him. In hide and seek there is a version where there is a home base that once you reach you are safe and escape being “it.” God gives us a home base in Him. The best part of the journey to see things from His perspective is that all along the way God invites us to be hidden in Him, escaping trouble. He is the ultimate home base. The Lord hides and the Lord hides. He seeks us and finds us that we may be hidden in Him and see more of His perspective. What once seemed hidden and obscure becomes our greatest blessing...more of Him. Hide in Him and Seek His ways.