Scavenger Hunt
May 20, 2016
READ: Luke 11: 9-13
It is early morning, the day before the wedding. The bride sends Virginia and me upstairs with the instructions, “Don’t come downstairs!” When we are called, she gives each of us two small slips of paper. She explains the rules: “No helping each other. You each have to follow your separate clues.” So Virginia and I begin a scavenger hunt. What a great surprise – with each clue found there is a small gift, a special card, a little “I love you.” We are having fun and being loved in another family tradition – a scavenger hunt. Dorothy is repeating for us what we have done for our children every holiday – putting on an elaborately detailed, personal, clever scavenger hunt.
The Christian life is like a scavenger hunt. God placed in His children, not just the desire for us to know, to seek, to search out His mind and will and our purpose, but in the searching to experience joy in the hunt. God placed in us a drive to seek truth, to discover knowledge, to seek Him. And God gave us a heart that loves the seeking. In this scavenger-hunt life, we are given clues and directions and when we obey God He reveals more and more of Himself to us.
It is early morning, the day before the wedding. The bride sends Virginia and me upstairs with the instructions, “Don’t come downstairs!” When we are called, she gives each of us two small slips of paper. She explains the rules: “No helping each other. You each have to follow your separate clues.” So Virginia and I begin a scavenger hunt. What a great surprise – with each clue found there is a small gift, a special card, a little “I love you.” We are having fun and being loved in another family tradition – a scavenger hunt. Dorothy is repeating for us what we have done for our children every holiday – putting on an elaborately detailed, personal, clever scavenger hunt.
The Christian life is like a scavenger hunt. God placed in His children, not just the desire for us to know, to seek, to search out His mind and will and our purpose, but in the searching to experience joy in the hunt. God placed in us a drive to seek truth, to discover knowledge, to seek Him. And God gave us a heart that loves the seeking. In this scavenger-hunt life, we are given clues and directions and when we obey God He reveals more and more of Himself to us.