Do you remember playing “Hide & Seek” when you were a child? You would close your eyes and count to a hundred if you were “it” while all the other kids would run and hide. And then when you reached a hundred, you would yell, “Ready or not, here I come!”

Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem whether they were ready or not. For thousands of years, the Jewish people had been counting the passing days thinking they were ready for his coming, and then when he came they ran to hide and never really came out to welcome him.

Rosemary Brown, Hide and Seek