THE HIDE AND SEEK GAME.

JUST THINKING:

The hide and seek game was an interesting game when I was much younger. As a child, you always looked forward to hiding so that you could be sought after by your dad, elderly one or a friend. But no matter how we hid somewhere, we would always be caught because children didn't know how to hide.
Today, people hide for one reason or other. When Adam and Eve heard God's voice, they went to hide. They thought they could play hide and seek with God. But were they actually playing hide and seek?
No, they were hiding because they had eaten of the tree God had told them not to eat of. They were trying to hide from God who is omnipresent. This shows that man became narrow minded after he fell. How could they think they could hide from the one whose eyes go to and fro the earth?
Hebrews 4: 13, "And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must  give account".
Psalm 139:7‭-‬12 GNT says, "Where could I go to escape from you? Where could I get away from your presence?  If I went up to heaven, you would be there; if I lay down in the world of the dead, you would be there. If I flew away beyond the east or lived in the farthest place in the west, you would be there to lead me, you would be there to help me. I could ask the darkness to hide me or the light around me to turn into night, but even darkness is not dark for you, and the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are the same to you".
No matter how dark you are, you can't hide from God. A very dark man in a very dark place can't hide from Him because darkness is light before him. People can hide from people but not from God. R.A.Torrey said, "Adam did not succeed in hiding from God. Neither will you succeed. No man ever succeeded in hiding from God".
Like Adam, many of us try to hide when we have sinned and messed up. The truth is that you can hide from men but you can't hide from God. Sin, indebtedness, pride, rejection, lack of confidence, complex, shame and so on make people hide. People hide in wait to attack others. They hide when they are practicing evil, committing crimes, stealing and carrying out wicked atrocities because they know that evil strives in the dark and sin strives in secret. But I thank God for Jesus. Because of him, we do not run or hide when we err. We run to the light instead, so that our deeds can be seen. Jesus is the light we run to.
John 3:20‭-‬21 NKJV says, "For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God".
People who do evil do it in the dark but they can't do it in the light because the light exposes, reveals and shows who they really are and what they do. We all see in bright places but grope in darkness. Actually, it is only in God's light we can truly see light. But outside the light, we get consumed by darkness.