Hide and Seek

Of all days to have my laptop playing hide and seek with me!  I was on my computer off and on most of yesterday and it was fine.  Last nite after my son and family left from a visit, I got on my laptop and the screen went black.  I hit the 'on' key and it came back up in the lock position - then would go black again.  After numerous times of trying to get it to stay up - I gave up.  This morning - and again this afternoon, same thing.  It kept wanting to play 'hide and seek'.  I gave up and got on the PC.  Good thing I kept this one as a back up.  I have emailed the person we bought it from who advised he doesn't service these now - but would stop by in the morning to check it out.  So - for now - I'm on the PC.  Which isn't all bad.

Hide and seek.  How often do we play that game in our lives.  How many times do we 'shut down' and 'black out' when our spouse or children talk with us about something and we don't want to listen?  Ok - guilty here as well.  I think we call it 'selective hearing', don't we?  How often, when we don't want to hear things, we close our ears to what is being said - regardless of who is saying it?

When God is directly talking to you - what do you do?  Are you shutting down and blacking out so you don't have to listen to what He says?  Trust me, if you want to hear anyone, you want to hear God speak!  I encourage you to listen carefully!  Hide His Word in your heart and meditate on it.  Don't play 'hide and seek' with God - you will always lose.

Open my eyes, Lord, I want to see Jesus,
to reach out and touch Him,
to say that I love Him.
Open my ears, Lord, help me to listen,
open my eyes, Lord,
I want to see Jesus.

Blessings!