Near Sighted

I was recently having a conversation with a friends mom about how the game "Peek-a-Boo" works.  To adults, who have more developed brains, they know that the person is simply behind the hands.  However, when a baby sees someone's face disappear behind their hands, the baby sees the person as gone.  What is interesting about this topic is that it takes awhile before the baby learns that the adult playing Peek-a-Boo with them isn't gone, they're just hiding behind their hands.  As I had this conversation I was thinking about the parallels that a baby's behavior and an adult's behavior have.

Quite simply, there are a lot of distractions in this world.  Every where we go, we are bombarded with sights, smells, sounds, tastes, and feelings.  We go to restaurants. smell food, eat food, participate in conversation, listen to the music that is playing.  We walk along a street and smell car emissions, see signs and billboards, and hear people's conversations.  We get into our cars and listen to the radio.  Even now, I'm listening to music as I write this.  Our senses are bombarded nearly all the time.  Among all of this, it is very simple to wonder if God is gone.  It easy to wonder if He has left us high and dry in a moment of struggle.  Sometimes, in the hardest moment of struggle we get a glimpse of God, and they seem to amaze us.  We are left in awe, just as a baby is left giggling when an adult emerges from behind his hands.

 However, God is never gone.  He is behind the distractions.  We have to take the time to push away the sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and feelings to see him.  We have to trust that He is with us.  We should be in awe of him all of the time, because He is an awesome God.  He wants us to be in awe of Him, but He also wants us to know that He is with us.  He is not an adult playing games with babies.  We are forgetful babies.  We forget where He is.  He is right here.  He is with you.  He is with me.  Take the time today to pray and read the Bible in quiet solitude.  Fast from a meal.  Kneel in awe of a God who chooses to love all people. 

The LORD said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by.” Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake.
After the earthquake came a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper.

When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave. Then a voice said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

 I Kings 19:11-13

God is speaking to you.  God loves you.  God has plans for you.  God is with you.  Are you listening?
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