The other day, Sawyer was playing on our playset and was tickled beyond belief by a little game he invented. Calling down to me on the ground, he would say “Mommy…You can’t see me!!!!” and giggle away until he popped his little head out of the window of his “fort” on top of the slide. Playing along, I acted as if he had fooled me and this tickled him even more.
My children love to hide. When JJ comes home after a long day at work, this is their favorite thing to do – giggles flying through the air that give away their whereabouts and hidden eyes that make them feel like they are invisible abound throughout our living room until he asks “Where are my children?” in a concerned and silly voice.
He acts befuddled until they see his anguish and run out and yell “We’re here! We’re here, Daddy”!
How often do I want to yell out “I’m here!!! I’m here, Daddy!” and yet, He knows where we are all of the time. We never have to worry about this with our God – there is nowhere we can go that will allow us to flee from his presence. Nowhere we can hide. Thank. God. How comforting to know He is always with us.
Yet with that comes some responsibility. While He is always with us when we particularly need to hold His hand, He is also with us when we have acted in a way that would disappoint Him. When He weeps for our harsh words and our mean-spirited thoughts of another one of his children.
Where can we go from His Spirit? Where can we flee from His presence?
Nowhere. And I choose to take joy in this – even when I am not so proud of my behavior. My words. My thoughts. Because the best thing is that while He will correct us and force us to learn from the foibles that plague us each day, He still loves us beyond belief at the same time.
His grace is enough.
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So neat and very true. Loved your picture to go with it.
Have a blessed day Natalie~
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Wonderful. I love knowing that He sees and knows everything. Even our mean thoughts because He is usually very quick to correct us and if He didn’t know then who would and I can see them getting out of control.
Sometimes just stopping and thinking about His Awesomeness is enough to make you rejoice right there on the spot!
Have a blessed day.
I used to try to hide from Him. Silly me. And now, like you, I take joy. Joy in knowing that He has seen it ALL, and still loves and accepts me. That is an awesome love that I can’t get away from!
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Awesome photo and what a great lesson!
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Simply love this one, don’t we all think as children that there must be somewhere God can’t see us? And now as an adult, I thank Him over and over again, that though I’ve tried at times, I have learned that there is nowhere, simply no-where that I can go that He won’t pursue me, chase me down and meet me in my every state…oh, thank you, Lord! I do believe this will probably be my most favorite post of the day and I haven’t even gone through half of them…thank you!
I just read that passage of Psalm last night. I really enjoyed your post.
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Beautiful post! You have such super cute kids!
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Handsome little man! Enjoyed your post today. Funny but here lately I’ve been saying “Here I am, Father” alot, so your post really spoke to me in ways too numerous to mention…
Blessings,
Linda J
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You know Natalie, God so amazes me when He shows up in the details…we try and do it all the time, our grown up version of hide n seek from God, as if….
I love when He teaches us lessons we so need through such simplicity…
I needed this one…the reminder…
Thank you for letting God use YOU!
peace,
lori
what a cutie-pie you’ve got there!!!
there is such comfort in knowing that God is always with me- never do i walk alone- it is also a stark reality that when i fail Him, He is right beside me as well- makes me more aware of how i’m walking…thanks for this reminder…
blessings,
jenifer
A great WFW ~ Blessings ~
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Can just imagine the little ones having fun…..they do not want expensive toys…they want us to have with them…….just as the verse says that He is always with us…..we cannot, nor, thanks to Jesus, need to hide…..we can make haste to confess and be forgiven and I am so thankful for that.
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Amen, Sister. Amen!
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Oh I love this so much!
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