What is the best place to hide if someone is trying to find you? Assuming you don’t want to be found, the answer is simple: up.

For a variety of reasons, we humans don’t tend to look higher than eye-level when searching for things. These reasons include:

Evolution – We didn’t have many predators, or prey, who dropped from the sky.

Anatomy – The construction of our faces don’t make looking up easy. We actually have to crane our necks.

Navigation – Looking up blinds us from tripping hazards and cliff edges.

Architecture – Ceilings are usually boring so we have been conditioned to ignore them.

So, if you broke into a warehouse, hide in the rafters when a security guard comes poking around.

Our problem with not looking up extends into our spiritual lives. We get very focused on our daily lives, our calendars and schedules, our food and entertainment, even the people around us. These aren’t necessarily bad things, but they aren’t going to give us the answers we are looking for.

If you feel lost or incomplete, when you lack purpose or hope, when you are bored, frustrated, sad, or weary, look up.

“Set your minds on what is above, not on what is on the earth.” (Colossians‬ ‭3‬:‭2,‬ ‭HCSB‬‬)

The real answers cannot be found here on earth. There is nothing here that will satisfy our deep longings for truth, value, and meaning. Love isn’t here.

These things can only be found in a relationship with God.

He wants that for you so badly that He sent His son to remind us all to look up at Him, hanging on the cross, and then resurrected. To save us from the predators and hazards of always looking down at our circumstances.

Dear God, thank you for the reminder to focus on you and your will instead of getting bogged down in my own desires, plans, successes, and failures. You are wise, full of powerful truth and love. Reveal yourself to me today and fill me with your peace and purpose.