Saturday night was the first home game for my school's team. The stadium was packed, everyone in the  kind of hyper-jolly mood that only happens in South, on saturday night, at the first home game of the season. It also happened to be the largest crowd of Wildcat Field history. The entire college population, decked out in royal blue and orange, hollered for their teammates/classmates, parents hollered for the boy who just got the ball ("Did you see him!? Did you see the way he just took back those yards?! That's MY boy!" in the way only a Southern momma could say it.), and little kids with waaay too much caffeine hollered just because they could. Crazy, hyped, happy mayhem.

Ryan Montague, the dude you want to have the ball :) 

Just before the game started, the lady sitting in the bleachers in front of me stood up and started wildly waving her arms and calling out for "Susan." I assume "Susan" was somewhere below us, somewhere in the noise, the color, the crowd. I felt bad for the woman. There was no way, unless she was standing still and looking, that "Susan" was going to see her friend frantically waving her arms. And I suddenly thought:

"What is that's how God feels like?"   

Does He feel like He's standing in the stadium of our life, barely visible to us because of our crowd, or the noise or the color, or the general hype of life here on earth?

We're constantly surrounded by the world, and I don't mean that in an entirely negative way. The people that God puts in our lives can sometimes become a distraction. The job that He's given us, the school He's led us to, the ministries He's called us to... these can all be distractions. They add color, texture, flavor, and other wonderful things to our lives. They can easily become what holds us back, what weighs us down if we forget why they're there.

Those things were given to us to be enjoyed, but not to be controlled by.

Maybe "Susan" didn't see her friend because she wasn't looking for her. Look for God, people. He says He will be found by those who are truly seeking Him. Sometimes when we get into a tight spot, we whimper and cry about "where was God when...?" But the fact is, He was there the whole time.
We just couldn't see Him for all the colors, the lights, and crowds with which we surround ourselves.

"Seek and you will find." 
Matthew 7:7