You cant see me!
When small children play hide and seek, they sometimes believe theyre hiding just by covering their eyes. If they cant see you, they assume you cant see them.
Naïve as that may seem to adults, we sometimes do something similar with God. When we find ourselves desiring to do something we know is wrong, our tendency may be to shut God out as we willfully go our own way.
The prophet Ezekiel discovered this truth in the vision God gave him for his people, exiled in Babylon. The Lord told him, Have you seen what the elders of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? They say, The Lord does not see us (Ezek. 8:12).
But God misses nothing, and Ezekiels vision was proof of it. Yet even though they had sinned, God offered His repentant people hope through a new promise: I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you (36:26).
For us, God met the brokenness and rebellion of sin with His tender mercy at the cross, paying the ultimate penalty for it. Through Jesus Christ, God not only offers us a new beginning, but He also works within us to change our hearts as we follow Him. How good is God! When we were lost and hiding in our sinfulness, God drew near through Jesus, who came to seek and to save us (Luke 19:10; Rom. 5:8).
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