Hide & Seek

Do you like to play Hide & Seek? When my brothers and were kids, we loved playing Hide & Seek with friends, neighbors and cousins. We were not allowed to play this inside the house, but we had a lot of room outside to hide. You could hide in the garage or in the garden, behind bushes or one of the sheds. With such a big space, the game took longer to play, but it was fun trying to find new places to hide and trying to find other people.

I mention Hide & Seek because in our first reading from Proverbs today (25:2-10), we read, “It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.” At first, I thought of God playing Hide & Seek.

If we understand this verse by looking through Jesus Christ, we see that God’s glory was hidden in him. That is why when many people heard Jesus’ teachings, they did not believe he was the Son of God. Even when some people saw the miracles he performed – turning water into wine, multiplying loaves of bread and fish for thousands of people to eat, and raising the dead – they still did not believe in him. God the Father hid his glory in Jesus. He did not allow everyone to see his glory.

The next part of the verse says that the glory of kings to search things out. Again, when we look at this through Jesus Christ, we see that our Lord and King searched out sinners. In Jesus, God searches for us. Sometimes, we try to hide from God. Sometimes, we want to stay away from God or want God to stay far away from us. But God is the best Hide & Seek play ever, and God will always search for you because God loves you.

With that, let us pray. Heavenly Father, from whom all fatherhood in heaven and earth is named: Bless these and all children, and give their parents the spirit of wisdom and love, so that the homes in which they grow up may be to them an image of Your Kingdom, and the care of their parents a likeness of Your love. We pray in the Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.