Hearing God 11 – Running from his voice

July 10, 2009 · Filed Under spiritual hearing 

From Alan Smith’s Blog

Gen 3:10
So he said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.” NKJV

When I was a kid I used to love to play Hide and Seek. What great fun to find just the right hiding place; to be the last one found. I vaguely remember being quite little and playing Hide and Seek with my mom. While she would count I would run to find my hiding place. I always hid in exactly the same spot. It wasn’t a very good spot. In an attempt to make it fun, all the while knowing exactly where I was hiding, my mom would look in various places while calling out “Ready or not, here I come!”

I couldn’t stand the tension or the idea of mom not being able to find me, so I would prematurely emerge from my clandestine location with a loud cry of “Here I am mom!”

I’ve gotten better at hiding through the years though. I’m best at hiding from God. I evaluate my performance. Have I prayed enough, read the word enough, believed enough, behaved adequately? If I deem myself to have failed to measure up, I’ve become quite good at hiding. I keep my distance during worship. I pray from a distance.

We have been hiding from God because of shame for a long time haven’t we? Could shame be one of the reasons we struggle to hear God’s voice? Are our hearts hiding from God?

God is still calling.

Maybe we should become as little children again and burst out from our hiding places with a loud cry of “Here I am!”

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