Hide and Go Seek Blog

I better be careful, or else my job around here might be in jeopardy. I’m just thankful that they still let me hang around here. I can’t believe I get paid to do this. I wish. It’s been so long since I’ve done my job, I better make this one sizzle.
I think that the capital heresy of the modern church is that we have it all together. There’s this wall between us and the outside world. It the un-penetrable force that keeps this thing from taking off. This attitude of us and them, and our inability to be broken in front of it. It’s like the father that says “Son, big boys don’t cry”, as stern and solemn as possible. But our Heavenly Father never says that. He never ever said, “Big followers don’t cry.” He simply says, “let me be there when you are, because in your brokenness is where I want to be. I count every tear.” And He said it in the most broken way he could.
If it ever seems that the Jesus movement got stuck along the way, it was probably when our necessity to different from the pagans became a necessity to be better than the pagans. We need to know when we can’t go on anymore. When your tired, you need to sleep. When you’re desperate, you need to cry, when you’re done, you need to stop.
There is a loss of brokenness, and it’s breaking us. It’s breaking me. Hopefully it’s okay to say “uncle” when I’ve had all that I can take. It need to be okay to ask questions, especially of God. It needs to be okay to be empty, because God can fill us up. Tomorrow is a new day. The birds will sing a new song tomorrow. The clouds will paint a new song tomorrow.

Psalm 126:4-6 (The Message)And now, God, do it again—
bring rains to our drought-stricken lives
So those who planted their crops in despair
will shout hurrahs at the harvest,
So those who went off with heavy hearts
will come home laughing, with armloads of blessing.

Psalm 126:5 (NLT) Those who plant in tears will harvest with shouts of joy.

Philippians 4:6 (NIV)
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.