Jesus Christ, the Seeker!

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.” (John 3:16-21)

Don’t we love to play hide and seek? One person is a seeker and other people are trying to hide anywhere they can from that seeker. I think I used to play it when I was a child and teenager as I loved that game. My family have used to play it with Kong, our dog, by throwing one of her dolls and quickly trying to hide from her. I loved seeing her always coming into my room and trying to find one of my family members, even if they weren’t in the room.

Although hiding can be fun if we play hide and seek or something like that, hiding could be bad if we are trying to cover our inappropriate deeds up. I played StarCraft, the Korean famous war game, even if I was not allowed to, when I was a teenager. However, there were two things I really ashamed of. Not only did I watch inappropriate things before I became a Christian, but I continued to do the same thing, even though I was Christian and knew I was a child of God, for a while. This evil deed of mine ashamed me because every Christian friend of mine believes I was inspiration to others but I was not being a true child of God, so I basically kept only my outside clean by volunteering and helping out others. To put this simply, I had an unwilling heart to expose my dark side to them.  Another thing was that I pretended to be a follower of Jesus before I became a true one. I only did this as I wanted to hang out with my friends.

Meditate on Hebrews 4:13 and 1 Corinthians 12:12-31. Ask yourself this question today: ‘What am I hiding from Jesus Christ and others?’