Peek-A-Boo

Peek-A-Boo

“The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.”

‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭15:3‬

Have you ever played this game with a baby? You put your hands over your face and then take them away really quick in a surprising fashion in an attempt to scare the tiny thing. Sometimes you get a laugh, sometimes you get a cry, I mostly get a cry. 

I never really understood why we hid our face and then made it reappear, and why that was funny but it did make me think of this. 

We often turn away from someone that we don’t want to see us. It’s as if by just turning our face, our whole body has disappeared. 

I used to play “war” with my brother in the woods when we were little. We would each build elaborate forts, wear camouflage and hide ourselves while the other tried to find us. The mere closing of our eyes concealed us from the world in our minds. 

Do you think God can see you even if you try to hide? Or even if you try to hide your sin?

There is nothing you can hide from God, not even a thought. Think about that one. No matter what you think, He will know. Truly there is no point to ever trying and yet we still do. It’s that pesky sin nature we were born with. 

Once you start to center your life around God and you start to replace the bad things in your life, with those of good, the less you have to hide. 

Hiding your face is an act of shame. It’s embarrassment. We look down or look away because we don’t want someone to see us for what we are in that moment of shame or guilt, usually as a result of sin. Just because you hide your face doesn’t mean you can’t be seen. 

Having a closeness with God will move you further away from that shame and guilt. 

It’s less of trying not to sin and more of building a relationship with God. The simple steps of walking with God replace bad with good. 

We never have to hide our face when we walk with God. We have Gods mercy, grace, love and forgiveness.

Reading your Bible daily, praying often, being in church and surrounding yourself with like-minded Christians are the things that bring a closeness to God. 

Remember we will never be sinless, but we can sin less. 

“And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.”

‭‭Acts‬ ‭9:18‬

“And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:”

‭‭Revelation‬ ‭6:16‬

“Seek the Lord and his strength, seek his face continually.”

‭‭1 Chronicles‬ ‭16:11‬