“You will seek Me and
find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. I will be found by you.” Jeremiah 29:13-14
A half-hearted effort to find God will not
suffice. A person must be ‘all in’. Those who say they don’t believe in the
existence of a Supreme Spirit Being who created everything we see simply
haven’t been looking in the right place.
When a person examines their own heart they may find something’s
missing. Soul searching is therapeutic, but honesty is key. It
cleanses the soul and leads us to the piece of the puzzle that is missing.
I tell people who are uncertain of God’s existence to simply ask Him “If
you are real, then reveal Yourself to me.”
That person must leave what they think they know at the door. They need to clear their mind of the clutter
than this world provides in abundance.
Begin to read the gospels slowly keeping an open mind. You can’t force someone to receive
Christ. You can simply lead them to a
certain point then let them go, kind of like teaching a small child how to ride
their first bike without training wheels.
They will either make an honest effort to find God or they will not. Their free will allows them to choose for
themselves. It’s not like a contest
where God is competing against the world for ultimate control of a person’s
life. God loves us and desires to forgive
us, but we must come to the place where we see our need for that forgiveness.
These verses in Jeremiah reveal one of the multitudes of promises God
makes to mankind. If you earnestly seek the
Lord with all your heart, you WILL
find Him. Why is it with the heart that
we seek God? The heart is the source of our
being, emotions,
and sensibilities.
To invest everything into finding and then knowing the Creator of the Universe
is to find once-for-all-time forgiveness, marvelous mercy, glorious grace and unconditional
love. That’s something that’s worth
looking into. Until next time, walk with
the King and be a blessing!
Resource: The American Heritage Dictionary of the
English Language.
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