Jeremiah 29:13 “You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.”

Deuteronomy 4:29 “But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.”


 There is a popular series of Children’s books called Where’s Wally. The whole idea is that you have a picture filled with people, and this is not just any ordinary scene, it is generally a picture of absolute chaos. It is full of mess, there are people fighting, spilling things, bumping into each other. And the whole idea is that somewhere in the middle of this chaos, there is a guy called Wally wearing a red and white stripped shirt looking very clam and peaceful. The trick is to be able to look beyond the chaos and find where Wally is in the midst of everything else.
Christianity is meant to be like a giant game of where’s Wally, only instead of looking for a guy in red and white stripes, we are looking for God. God is not sitting off in some pure hygienic heaven waiting for us to step away from reality to find him. He has come to us, into our mess so that we can find him here. When Jesus was born, he was born into a cattle shed – full of noise, and the stench of animals. If your family some times feels a bit like that, then you need to know that Christ is right there with you. You just have to be able to find him in that that place. When Jesus rises from the dead and appears to the disciples, they are scared, they are hiding out of fear, they are grieving and some of them are filled with doubt. But that is where they find him.
Some times we are so convinced that god has abandoned us, that we fail to see that he is standing right in front of us. But he is there. He is always there. We need to pray for the grace to see him in our midst and encounter him in every situation in our life.

Points to cover:
- parallel between chritianity and where's wally
- you must have faith to find god in the mess, just as you have faith that wally is in the pictures





Where’s God?


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We tend to believe there is nothing wrong with us. Anything not going right in our lives is almost always someone else’s fault.
“Did you see what he did to me?”
“Did you hear what she said?”
“What was she thinking?” On a grander scale, we always have God to blame. With so much human suffering in the world, we think surely God has abandoned us.
In 1987, Martin Handford wrote Where’s Waldo?. The concept was simple. In very detailed pictures of public settings, such as crowded malls or train stations, the artist hid a young man named Waldo. When you glance at the scene, Waldo blends in and is difficult to locate. But you know, indisputably, that he’s there, right in front of your eyes, even if you can’t spot him. The same can be said for God. He is always right there, in every scene of your life; you just can’t always recognize him. He blends in. The fact that you haven’t found him doesn’t mean he’s not there. You’re just not looking in the right place.
Most of the time, we wait to blame the big things on God, or use them as evidence that he doesn’t exist. When we’re dealing with famine, wars, and tragedies of all kinds, we ask each other, “Where’s God during all of this?” Or else we think, “How could God let these things happen?” The reality is that God doesn’t allow bad things to happen; we do. He also never abandons us; we just can’t always find him. Like Waldo, he has blended into the daily scenes of our lives.
So what are we looking for? Most of us no longer expect to find a guy with a long white beard and flowing robe. It has been said that God is love, so let’s start there. Every time you witness a demonstration of love, you have just found God. If you have trouble finding such a demonstration, then simply give one yourself. Every act of kindness that you or anyone else performs is a demonstration of love. It is your proof that God is always with us. Finding love in yourself or others is the same as finding God.

Can You Find Waldo In My 360° Illustration?


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