“…he [the Lord] be not far from every one of us: For in him we live, and move, and have our being;” — Acts 17:27b-28a
There are times God feels distant. But the Bible tells us we live and move in him like a fish lives and moves in water.
John Ortbert in his little book God is Closer Than You Think says God sometimes plays a spiritual version of “Where’s Waldo”. Waldo is on every page but as those books progress he becomes more difficult to find. Why? The author, Martin Handford, never says but when Waldo is found there is joy and a sense of discovery. The experience teaches children to pay attention to detail and to keep seeking because they know his is there somewhere, the author promises that he is!
God never says why he is sometimes hard to feel, either, but I think it is to produce a similar response in his children.
Have you found Waldo on today’s page, yet?
–fritz
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