Hide and Seek

I remember as a child hide and go seek was the game of all games. You know the game where you have someone count while the rest of the people find a hiding place. You remember finding that spot that was so good people gave up looking for you. You were so anxious to have the person looking for you to either not find you or was it to find you.

We still play that same game now, just in different way, we hide our emotions, our intentions, and our mistakes.

I will have something going on inside, something on my mind, or something I am feeling. I will hide it, but I will use other emotions or actions to have someone seek them out. I will try to avoid a situation where I may have to come out of my hiding place.
I will get quiet, withdrawn, one word answer (hiding), wanting someone to seek out whats wrong. Selfish!!! Unfair!!!!
Saying whats wrong sometimes makes me feel so open, so vulnerable.
Other ways we hide, anger, avoidance, drugs, alcohol, sex, lying...........wow..........SIN!!!!!!!!!!

God wants us to be exposed, open, vulnerable.....because that means we are trusting him. His will be done, Moses didn't avoid the wilderness he knew he had to go thru it in order to get to the Promise Land. He could not hide!!!!!!!!!!!!!!