A canopy of stars watches over us day and night. The source did not identify the location, but I have seen a similar rock formation in Arches National Park, Utah. This photo is courtesy of pxhere.com, a website that offers non-copyrighted images.

November 18, 2023 / 0 comments

Seek and Find

But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.

  • Deuteronomy 4:29

You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

  • Jeremiah 29:13

“So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

  • Luke 11:9-10

“’Beloved,’ said the Glorious One, ‘unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truely. For all find what they truely seek.’”

  • C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle

The Creator of the universe created this wonderful place.  He created humans and gave them free will.  In giving them free will, He gave them the possibility of not choosing wisely.  But in the end, God wanted us to truly seek Him.

Wouldn’t you, if you created a world?  And would you not reward them for having done what you wished for them to do?

God does not set the bar very high, but He sets it where most of us fail to look.  God is love and all He desires is that we love Him in return to the point where God is our only desire. And when we have achieved that, what others see is amazing and desirable. God truly is light, and He shines through those who love Him.

Are there rules?  Sure, but it is not about the rules; it’s about loving God.  Should be repent?  Yes, not even an option, but without God within us, we do not have the desire nor the strength to resist the temptation to sin.  So, God plants a seed within us that does not like that sin.  Do we listen all the time? No, but we confess the sin and move on.  Because God knows our heart and He knows those who do not wish to do what they do, and they desire to do some things that they never get around to doing.

Seeking is one of those verbs that carries an attitude with it.  Luke 15 comprises three parables about lost things, a sheep, a coin, and a son.  In the first two, the person that loses the lost thing stops everything to devote themselves to finding the lost thing.  In the third parable, the son is lost, but the father does not rip through the countryside looking for his son.  At first, while the money lasts, the son does not wish to be found.  But when that son finds the desire to be in his father’s arms, the father runs to meet him.

Having a life-giving relationship with Jesus is as simple as proclaiming with our mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord of our lives, but we need to understand what those words really mean and the context thereof.  It comes down to realizing that I am nothing without Jesus within me and I desire more of Him and less of me.  And after we pray and study the Bible, the rest takes care of itself a little piece at a time.

When we truly seek, we shall find God.

Soli Deo Gloria.  Only to God be the Glory.

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