Game for children

WHEN ADULTS play hide and seek with young children, the children can never lose. It would be a had game if adults hid in some place where they could not be found. We make certain that we can be. If, by chance, the child still fails, then we go in search.
Is there not something similar in God? He gives us any number of opportunities to find Him. And even if we become distracted and stop looking, He will take an initiative — a happy experience possibly, or one involving tragedy or sadness — and come looking for us. He wants us. Never doubt that. It is foolish to hide front Him.
I like the concept of man being in search of God. Slowly we come to realise that it is only one way of speaking of our response to God's search for us. That is where the initiative lies. God in search of man reveals Himself in a way which the created universe cannot. It is a special kind of revelation. It reached its high point when the Son of God became man.