A child was playing hide-and-seek with some children. She went away and hid herself, but the other children acted cruelly and while she was hiding they ran away and left her behind. When the little girl realised that she had been abandoned by her friends, she went running home and threw herself into her father’s arms and cried, “Daddy, I was hiding and nobody tried to find me!” The father hugged his daughter and said, “God understands. He understands more than you realise.” – Indeed, it must be the ultimate disappointment of God that we seldom seek Him out. The Bible says that if we truly seek Him, we will find him.

Tony Campolo

Source: Tony Campolo, Let Me Tell You A Story, p.1