Back in the day (as my students would say) we had no smartphones or video games. Heck, we had rotary dial phones that were attached to the wall. Back in the day, we played tag and hide and go seek. That last one was always fun. The person who was “it” would go seeking and often saying “come out, come out, wherever you are”. We could play for hours and if it was a large area, it was not very easy.
Around Easter, we all have in our hearts the joy and thought of resurrection. Jesus came to his friend Lazarus’ tomb and said, “Come out” and he did! Jesus soon did the same and came out of the tomb. There is a clear message here for all of us: quit hiding and come out! That childhood game of hide and go seek means a lot more than we kids realized. It is the actual game of the spiritual life. \
No matter where we hide or what we hide behind, the Eternal Seeker goes through the world shouting “come out, come out wherever you are”. The moment comes when we hear that call, the call to life, and we do indeed come out. We come out of that place within ourselves where we have been hiding from our true selves.
In this modern society, we hide with things, with drugs, with hatred, with fear, with status. We use these and more and we tell ourselves and sometimes others that these keep people out. Keep people at arm’s length and we say it is because we don’t want to get hurt or abused or manipulated. All of those reasons are of our own creation. They are barriers that are not keeping others out, they keep us in. In the “tomb” of our own fears. These are keeping us from coming forth from that tomb.
We have given that “moment we come out” a name, it is called resurrection. It is called the salvation moment. It is called salvation. It is the moment we know that coming out means letting go of all of the fear and excuses and being alive again. Today, come out, come out wherever you are, the Eternal Seeker is not going to give up, so just give in. Get found!
TMM