Who he really is

If you have ever played the game of hide and seek, you know that someone tries to hide so well that others will not be able to find their hiding spot. As I get a little older, I put things away, thinking I have done so very carefully, only to discover I forget where I have so carefully put those things! It is as though they don't want to be found! Sometimes people 'hide' so as not to be 'found'. At others, they don't even know they have been 'hidden' away for so long, all the while not even realizing someone is searching for them. Do they want to be 'found'? I suspect that deep down they may not, but that doesn't keep God from seeing their need or seeking their heart.

And later Isaiah spoke boldly for God, saying, “I was found by people who were not looking for me. I showed myself to those who were not asking for me.” (Romans 10:20)

God 'finds' those who don't even know they have become lost. He seeks those who have no way of really understanding just how 'lost' and 'burdened' they have become. He is 'found' not so much because we 'seek', but because he pursues us. Asimov said there is none so lost as a man who is lost in his lonely mind. He believed no one could reach into those recesses, nor could anyone save that man from that pit of lonely despair. I guess he didn't know the ability of our God! He shows himself to those who don't even ask to see him - all because he loves his creation so deeply.

People not looking - those who were not asking. The human state is really a very complex make-up of emotion, experience, and expectations, is it not? We go through life 'looking', but sometimes we don't ever find what we so desperately seek, all the while missing what is right there in front of us. Why is that? It may be that we have a different 'experience' in mind. I don't know about you, but when I first discovered just how much I needed something different in my life, the last thing I thought I needed was a relationship with Jesus. I had seen 'religious' people before and I doubted that 'experience' was for me. Truth be told, we often 'expect' one experience, but we experience something quite different than what we expected. 

This may be what has kept some from committing their lives to Jesus - from welcoming him into their lives. They 'expect' one experience about 'God' and 'God stuff', but are their expectations based upon fact or fiction? I guess they won't really know until they lay down their expectations and allow God to show them who he really is! Just sayin!