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<\/a>One of the promises in the Bible is found in Joshua 1:5 “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”\u00a0 Author Graham Cooke talks about this promise in his booklet called Drawing Close: See God’s Face and be Changed Forever.\u00a0 <\/em>He says this:<\/p>\n“God likes to hide-in fact He invented the game Hide & Seek.\u00a0 In certain seasons, He will reveal Himself to us; in others, He will hide from us.\u00a0 God only hides because He wants to teach us to look for Him.<\/strong>\u00a0 We all want Him to be manifest in our lives, all the time, but God sometimes wants to hide and draw us deeper into his presence.\u00a0 If God is hiding from us-but He also promised never to leave nor forsake us-we can extrapolate one thing: God is hiding in plain sight, teaching us to look for Him in a different way.\u00a0<\/strong> God is unpredictable but completely consistent.\u00a0 We always know where we are with God because He never changes, but we seldom know what He’s going to do next.\u00a0 Go will push us into places where we are not equipped to be.\u00a0<\/strong> To survive and flourish there, we have but one choice: Seek God in a place of rest.\u00a0 Let Him carry us forward.\u00a0 God hasn’t called us to do the reasonable, the possible or the attainable.\u00a0 He has called us to do the outrageously impossible.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n That challenged me in a fresh way today as I read it.\u00a0 When God feels distant and we feel alone, we aren’t.\u00a0 He is right there in plain site patiently waiting for us to discover Him in a different way.\u00a0 He is constantly active in our lives, whether He is pushing us into a place we are not equipped to be or patiently waiting for us to open our eyes.<\/p>\n I love the thought that God hides so that we can seek Him and find Him in a fresh way.\u00a0 To me this speaks of being active in my faith.\u00a0 Not staying comfortably inside my box but pushing forward through barriers and obstacles.\u00a0 I love that last line about God not calling us to the reasonable, the possible or the attainable but the outrageously impossible.\u00a0 It’s only then that we can say Only God could have made that happen.\u00a0 Those are the times that we grow the most and our faith is increased.<\/p>\n If you are feeling stuck in your faith maybe it’s time to look for God in a different way.\u00a0 Start praying and asking God to show you that new way and then pay attention and be ready to get out of your box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the promises in the Bible is found in Joshua 1:5 “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”\u00a0 Author Graham Cooke talks about this promise in his booklet called Drawing Close: See God’s Face and be Changed Forever.\u00a0 He says this: “God likes to hide-in fact He invented the game Hide … <\/p>\n