October 25
Where can you find Jesus? Your heart is longing for Him and you know in your mind that you are incapable of saving yourself. Sin has you wrapped around its axle and there’s no extricating yourself from its control over you without the intervention of the Savior.
Oh, you’re not a horrid person. You don’t murder, you don’t blaspheme His name, you don’t harbor hatred or prejudice within your heart—you simply suffer from the consequence of the fall—as do all men born of flesh. You know you must be reborn in your spirit and for that to happen, you must allow the Spirit of God to touch you.
How do you then open yourself to Him, so He may “guide you into all truth”? (John 16:13) A profound key to unlocking this quandary is in Luke 2:46. The family of twelve-year-old Jesus had been on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Upon the third day of their journey back home, they discovered that Jesus was not among the group. They retraced their steps to find Him.
“After three days they found Him in the temple complex, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions,” Luke 2:39-52. Today’s searcher may still find Jesus among the people of God, among the ones who ponder the profound questions of life. A wonderful starting place for your search is in God’s house, with people who have found Him and seek to know Him better.
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