Hide and Seek

God seeks what has been driven away. (Ecclesiastes 3:15, ESV 2025).

My Musings – An uplifting thought that brings hope when one might otherwise feel that “everything is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.”

Driven Away – “And the Lord God said, ‘The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat and live forever.’ So, the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.” (Genesis 3:21–24, NIV 1984).

God Seeks – “For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost.” (Luke 19:10, NIV 1984).

What is otherwise recorded in the Book of Ecclesiastes would have been mankind’s lot if God did not choose to seek and redeem what had been lost in the Garden. He had to drive us out, to prevent us from living forever in our sin, eternally separated from Him and banished and the “new Eden” He is preparing. Tragically, most, like Adam and Eve will hide “from the Lord God,” even as He calls out “where are you?” (Genesis 3:8-9, NIV 1984).

My Advice – He’s still seeking. Are we still Hiding or will we seek Him as well? God has placed us where we are and when we are to draw us out of hiding. God has “determined the times set for [us] and the exact places where [we] should live. God did this so that [we] would seek Him and perhaps reach out for Him and find him, though He is not far from each one of us.” (Acts 17:26–27, NIV 1984).

“The Lord God [is calling], ‘Where are you?'” (Genesis 3:9, NIV 1894). He knows where we are. But it is up to us to come out of hiding.