As a child you played hide-and-seek. You would hide and someone would try to find you. If you could get back to base before the other person found you, then you were safe. You loved that feeling of making it to base before being spotted by the other person
Isn’t it great that God does not play hide-and-seek with you? You do not have to worry about God hiding, and then telling you that you have to diligently seek Him, as He hides from you. He does not stand aloof, making it difficult for you to find Him.
Gerald Kennedy tells a story worth noting: “A young Jewish girl in the Warsaw ghetto managed to escape over the wall and hide in a cave. She died there shortly before the Allied Army broke out the ghetto. Before she had died, she had scratched on the wall three things. First, she wrote, ‘I believe in the sun, even though it is not shining.’ The second thing she wrote was, ‘I believe in love, when feeling it or not.’ The third thing she wrote was, ‘I believe in God, even when He is silent.’” The truth is, that when God is silent, that is exactly when you need to believe in Him the most. It is in God’s silence that at any moment a breakthrough may come.
You seek to find God. The heavens are silent. Your soul yearns within you to feel His presence. Everything seems so empty and meaningless. Your soul aches with emotions that fill your inner being. “Therefore, humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time’ (1 Peter 5:6). Pray! Wait! Humble yourself! At God’s exact time, He will exalt you. Remember, that God intervenes according to His timetable and not your timetable. At that instant, you find God! It could be just around the corner!
