The other day as I was getting ready to leave for work, I noticed I didn’t have my glasses, so I started looking for them. I checked everywhere that it made sense where they would be but I couldn’t find them. Panicking, because I was going to be late for work, I started tossing and flipping everything over but to no avail. I ended up leaving without them. I felt so lost throughout the day because my vision was blurred. I was walking around and it felt like I had a piece of plastic over my eyeballs impeding my vision. A few days later, I was in my son’s room and I just happened to look up and there the glasses were, sitting on his bookshelf. Now I go into his room all the time and it was in plain sight but it never thought to look there. I was so happy as you can imagine that I found them, but it also dawned on me that I “lost” them so that I can learn a lesson to better take care of things. I was telling my friend about it and I said to her, I throw these glasses around everywhere as if I don’t need them and I don’t depend on them to give me clear vision. In that moment, I realize that that is how we treat God sometimes. We toss him to the side or don’t place him high on our priority list as if we don’t need him. I also feel that maybe God has to “hide” himself from us so that we can seek him. It’s kind of like that old saying that says “you never miss the water until the well runs dry”. We go about our days, living our lives, doing whatever we want, disregarding God and act like we are alive on our own. Many of us, don’t seek God or notice that he’s missing until we run into some serious problems or our life is in shambles. Deuteronomy 31: 17 says ” Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?”. But thank God, this isn’t the only thing that he says. We serve a God that is so kind and merciful and all he wants is to have a deeper relationship with us. He also promises us in 2 Chronicles 30: 9 “For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him. I’m so glad that we serve a God that not only punishes us when we’re wrong but he doesn’t punish us forever. He’s always waiting for us to come to him and repent and he’s willing to forgive us and wipe the slate clean. Let’s make the effort to always seek the Lord and make him and his kingdom a priority so that he won’t ever need to turn away or hide his face from us.