1, 2, 3…8, 9, 10. Ready or not, here I come!

I never liked being the seeker in Hide-and-Seek. Are they behind the tree, up the tree, around the house, behind the car, in the ditch? Where to begin to look? Clueless, frozen, alone, I never liked being the seeker.

We read of Josiah that “in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of David his father…”(2 Chronicles 34:3)

Given our childhood Hide-and-Seek experiences, we might imagine Josiah clueless, frozen, alone, wondering where God is hiding. Where would one start to look to find God if God didn’t want to be found?

Seeking the God of David wasn’t a game. It was repentance. Josiah rejected the gods of his father and grandfather and instead sought and worshiped the God of David. Josiah turned from the gods of his culture and instead pursued Jehovah.

Humanity’s problem isn’t that God is hiding up a tree where we he can’t be found. Humanity’s problem – our problem – is that we don’t want the God who reveals himself to us. Instead, we seek our own gods.

Don’t believe me? Take time right now to read Romans 1:18–23.

Then repent, turning from the gods of culture to the God of David.