HIDE AND SEEK by Raphael ben Levi
The Rabbi DovBer of Mezheritch once encountered a weeping child. “Why are you crying?” he asked.
The child replied that he and a friend had been playing “hide and seek,” but his friend had run off to some amusement, leaving him curled up in his hiding place, waiting in vain to be searched out. Rabbi Dov Ber lifted his eyes to heaven and cried: “You, too, have hidden Your face from us only because You want us to seek You. But Your children have tired of the game and have run off…”
In these perilous times amid the increasing polarisation between righteousness and ungodliness, who has never been tempted to run away from God instead of running into His arms; to seek Him above all things and discover that He alone can provide us with shelter from the fierce storm?
When everything is spiralling out of control, know that God is always in control. When everything in your life seems to be disintegrating into a million fragments, know that God is already busy forming the pieces together again into a beautiful mosaic. When we face extremity, God sees it as an opportunity to create something extraordinary in our lives that always leads to abundance. But let us never tire of the ‘game’ and run away into the shadows…
“Seek the Lord while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.” (Isa. 55:6)
