Hide and Go Seek Blog

The night is still, there is nothing making any noise. An air of anticipation rises as a gentle hum on the air and comsumes the senses. Chills run down the spine, but you dare not make a sound for fear of ruining the silence. This time is so special, everything you ever wanted it to be, and yet nothing of what you expected it to be. You close your eyes, but it’s so dark iit doesn’t make any difference. Questions surround your head, about what He will do next. You take one last deep breath, but stall as you realize that he is moving. He leans in. You can feel his breath as it warms your face. It smells as sweet as the grass after a gentle summer’s rain. Drawing near to your cheek, he places one last kiss.
Before the beginning of the world, of Father had placed a simple kiss upon the cheek of his creation, His Children, mankind. It was simple. It was soft. Yet for the rest of history it would define His relationship with us. It’s something we will never forget. Before we were created, God kissed us and said his one last goodbye. One last goodbye before we had to be placed on Earth, to chooce whether or not to call Him Father anymore. Saying goodbye crushed him inside. He felt as though He was willing to die, if only he wouldn’t have to say goodbye to a single child ever again. Yet, He knew that true love is only possible when we have the choice to love or not. Knowing that as soon as we take our first breath we would forget all about our Father, he kissed us goodbye one last time, and in so doing created in us something missing. In that one action, we were made incomplete without the kiss.
Nothing was the same after that. The colours weren’t as bright, the sounds of music felted muffled and blurred. Food had lost its taste, water didn’t quench your thirst as it did before saying goodbye… that is, before the kiss. Something is was continuallly lacking in our lives. As if something were calling us continually back to the presence of our Savior. We were made incomplete at creation, God’s way of continually reminding us that He is still needed in our lives. As if, when he kissed us goodbye that one last time, it was accomplanied with the words, “Please, don’t forget about me. I love you.”
Something is not the same, living life apart from our Father. It doesn’t quite do it the way that life inside of obedience to God does. Incomplete at creation, we are made complete once again, in Him. By allowing him to once again, place his face against our cheek, everyday..
“For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.” Romans 1:20
God has written himself on everything around us, on every part of our daily lives, as a way of saying, “Don’t forget about me.” When was the last time you took the time to pause and look for God’s fingerprints on our daily lives? When was the last time I paused long enough for Him to place a kiss on me all over again? We were made lacking a certain comething from the very beginning, relationship witht the Father, the one complete one. Live in the constant reminder of the Prsence of Jesus Christ.

, Chad