Hide and Seek

" You can't see me!"
     When small children play " hide and seek," they sometimes believe they're hiding just by covering their eyes. If they can't see you, they assume you can't see them.
     Naive as that may seem to adults, we sometimes do something similar with God. When we find ourselves desiring to do something we know is wrong, our tendency may be too shut God out as we willfully go our own way.
     The prophet Ezekiel discovered his truth in the vision God gave him for his people, exiled in Babylon. The Lord told him, " Have you seen what the elders of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at a shrine of his own idol? they say, ' The Lord does not see us.'"
      But God misses nothing, and Ezekiel's vision was proof of it. Yet even though they had sinned, God offered His repentant people hope through a new promise: " I will give you a new heart and put a new Spirit in you."
     For us, God met the brokenness and rebellion of sin with His tender Mercy at the cross, paying the ultimate penalty for it. Through Jesus Christ, God not only offers a new beginning, but He also works within us to change our hearts as we follow Him. How good is Good! What we were lost and hiding in our sinfulness, God Drew near through Jesus, who " came to seek and to save" us.
     Thank You for Your kindness to me, Lord. Help me to seek You and follow You faithfully today. Good knows us completely... and loves us just as much.