‘Hide and Seek’ is one game played by children and enjoyed by children everywhere. The game works well for children as they are small enough to fit into cupboards and hide under bushes.
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After a while, a call goes out to those well-hidden, “Where are you?” I have said, “Where are you?” to myself often enough. It has been mostly when I am looking for my wife in the food supermarket.
The Good Book is more than a book of answers it also has many questions from the people whose lives are recorded in it.
Some of the questions that are recorded are from God himself, questions directed to humankind.
The first recorded question God asks is, “Where are you?”
It came from the first Hide and Seek activity Adam and Eve were playing at.
It was serious play for Adam and Eve in a huge garden as they went into hiding from God himself (As if they could hide from Him).
It was an unplanned and spontaneous response by Adam and Eve.
It was not done with a sense of fun as children would have.
New feelings of guilt and self-consciousness took them to hiding from God.
They hid amongst the trees when they heard him approaching.
God knew what it was all about.
Adam replied, “I heard you in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”
And further questions come from God “Who told you that you were naked?
Have you eaten from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil?”
Adam then shifts the blame to Eve, looking to avoid accountability.
Accountability is something of our struggle as humans, having knowledge within good and evil that sees us self-conscious at times, ‘hiding’ from each other and God.
