Find You - Audrey Assad

"10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1...ready or not here I come!!!"

Hide and go seek. It's a pretty universal game. In one way or another, as a kid or a parent, we've all probably played this game. We've found the perfect hiding place, knowing that we will never be found. We've laughed as others look for us, inches away, but unable to see us.

But. Have you ever actually quit playing?

Or, do you find yourself hiding behind layers of false front, hidden, in plain sight - inches away from the person in front of you. Maybe you call it something different from hide and go seek now. Maybe you call it perfecting your image. Maybe it's a "good poker face". It's your "performance face" - it's the character you are playing in this game we call life.

But are you actually happy in your hiding?? Or do you really want to be found?

I think God has made us wonderfully - to need to be found. With a need to be known. To be seen, for who we are, and loved perfectly, accepted no matter what. With no excuses. With no doubts. With no nagging "but if they really knew me...." thoughts.

As far as nowhere
As far as eye can see
From east to west there is no place you don't breath
When all is laid bare at the bottom of my grief
I will find you

At the bottom of my grief I will find you. What power there is. When we have hit the bottom of the pain, of the grief. It is there where we can find God. You see - we both need to be found, and we need to be the seeker. In finding God, we find ourselves. We find someone who knows us beyond all concepts and movements of the mind. When we make our bed below the earth, there we will find Him.

What are you grieving? Where are you hiding? What are you hiding from? What are you afraid of? What will it cost you if you come out of your hiding spot? Who will you be real with? Who will you allow to find you? Are you willing to sink to the bottom of your grief, lay it out and find Him?

Friends, you aren't doing this alone. Reach out. We'll pitch our tent with you.

"I see you!!! I found you!!!"


Beyond ideas
Beyond the veil of time
Beyond all color and bending of the light
Beyond all concepts and movements of the mind
I will find you

As far as nowhere
As far as eye can see
From east to west there is no place you don't breath
When all is laid bare at the bottom of my grief
I will find you

If I make my bed below the earth
If I make my bed below the earth
If I make my bed below the earth
I will find you

If I make my bed below the earth
If I make my bed below the earth
If I make my bed below the earth
I will find you