A Devotional For Men - God Wants To Be Found
 

God Wants To Be Found

They hurried to the village and found Mary and Joseph. And there was the baby, lying in the manger.
Luke 2:16

Robert Fulghum, author of All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten, writes about a group of neighborhood children playing hide-and-seek outside his home. As he wrote, one kid had hidden under a pile of leaves in his yard just under his window. He had been there a long time; everybody else had been found and were about to give up on him. Fulghum considered going out to the base and telling the other kids where the boy was hiding. Then he thought about setting the leaves on fire to drive him out. Finally, Fulghum raised the window and yelled, "Get found, kid!" (Fulghum adds: "Scared him so bad he probably wet his pants and started crying and ran home to tell his mother. It's hard to know how to be helpful sometimes.")

Fulghum then makes the following observation, "Better than hide-and-seek, I like the game called Sardines. In Sardines the person who is It goes and hides, and everybody goes looking for him. When you find him, you get in with him and hide there with him. Pretty soon everybody is hiding together, all stacked in a small space like puppies in a pile. And pretty soon somebody giggles and somebody laughs and everybody gets found.
Medieval theologians even described God in hide-and-seek terms, calling him Deus Absconditus. But me, I think God is a Sardine player. And will be found the same way everybody gets found in Sardines--by the sound of laughter of those heaped together at the end."

Never was that more true than that first Christmas. God came to the neighborhood not to play hide-and-seek. He came to play Sardines. And the first to find him, outside his family, were the shepherds. "They [the shepherds] hurried to the village and found Mary and Joseph. And there was the baby, lying in the manger" (Luke 2:16). The Savior was out in the open for the whole world to behold.

God wants to be found. That's what Christmas is all about: God who was found.
The shepherds found Jesus. Will you?








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A Dee

Thanks Dave.

Very nice, thanks bro.

Never herd of that game before ,I think we should play it