By Not Known
One of the favourite childhood games before the game-boy era is perhaps hide and seek. In this game, only the craftier ones who could conceal themselves from their seeker until the play-out time win. Many of us have outlived the age of playing this game, but the business of hiding remains very much alive in the craftiest part of our nature.
We are quick to signal the secretary to avoid a phone call over a nagging responsibility. We plead ignorance to some matters that rightly should come under our purview. We are habitually engaged with overtimes and night meetings at the expense of our marital duties, our spouses, and our children waiting at home. The hiding game takes on a religious coat when Christians readily carry this carnal nature into their relationship with God.
The prophet Jonah clearly heard God’s instruction to go to the city of Nineveh and preach against it (Jo 1:2). Instead of listening and obeying, he ran away in the opposite direction to Tanhish to flee from the LORD (Jo1:4). God completely taunted his escape. Whatever reason he offered latter to validate his action, he could not deny the fact that God had spoken and obedience was the on rightful response.
Consider..
- Are you hiding from God for something he has been impress upon your heart lately through Bible readings, sermons, godly admonition and your Christian conscience?.
- What is causing you to hide and to choose disobedience?
- How is God disciplining you?
- How must you change to stop hiding so as to run in tandem with God’s instructions?
Let us grow up in seeking God so that we may grow out of the hiding game. Rather than spending the rest of our lives hiding from God, why not start resting in his presence today!