Real Jesus Says - Here I Am!

Sometimes it can feel like God is playing an eternal game of "hide and seek".  It feels like God is hiding, when it's really the other way around.  We're trying to hide.  God is present everywhere, but we often don't notice or pay attention.  And pretty soon, we stop noticing, stop seeing.  And then...wow!  It's as if God is saying, "Here I Am!"  But Real Jesus shows us that God - the "Great I Am" NEVER fails to be present: in EVERY neighborhood, on every doorstep, in every "playground", and in every season and situation of bad news.  A "triple crown of good news": who couldn't use one of those?  But what if you have to choose just one?  And have you ever met someone you haven't seen in years?  Someone who changed your life back then in amazing, step-up-and-love-like-Jesus' ways.  Then there's the kid who know just "who" they want to be for Halloween:  Jesus!  What happens when "Jesus" knocks on doors that night?  Wow.  Finally, we'll sit with a team planning worship service theme.  Why do so many of the "Here I am" Bible verses only get used at Christmas?