Keeping things locked up is often a very good idea.
There are things we don’t want others to have access to.
Our bank accounts. Our best jewelry. The keys to our cars. These are no one’s business except ours. Other people need to keep out.
What happens, though, when we lose our keys?
For example, an encrypted document on our computer, perhaps one with our list of passwords or financial information. We forget our password, itself a key, and we no longer have access to what’s important to us.
What do we do then?
If you’re like most of us, it becomes a mad scramble through every file—paper and otherwise—until we find where we recorded the hidden password to open that document.
Lost or misplaced items can invoke the same sense of urgency. Our wedding ring or our checkbook. How about a birth certificate or car title we haven’t had out in years?
Arrgh! Panic! Where can it be?
How hard do we search for God when we no longer feel him in our lives, when he seems hidden from us?
Psalm 34:4 gives us David’s desperation:
“I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears.”
This is more than a casual verse read at breakfast. This is the panic of a lost key, a wedding ring that can’t be found, and a birth certificate vital to our needs. We set aside everything else, and we search until it’s found.
The relief when we hold what was lost in our hand is palatable. It’s the soothing reprieve of desperation replaced with confidence.
It’s the feeling of knowing beyond a doubt that God is in control, and he cares about us.
What’s hidden is revealed when we search with all our might. Let’s strive after God, and we will find him.
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