Seek Me And Find Me

April 20

We enjoyed playing ‘Hide and Seek’ when we were children. Many of us fondly remember warm summer nights when we had only the stars and the street lights to illumine our search for friends who were concealed behind trees, under porches, among the trash cans—anyplace an imaginative child considered to be a good hiding place.

Although God doesn’t hide from us, we do hide ourselves from Him. We live our lives without giving much thought to Him or to His law or to His perfect plan for us. Mankind relishes his ‘freedom from God’ to a greater extent today in the Western world than he ever has. Indeed, there was a time when Western man drew near to God and was blessed by discovering His mind as well as His heart.

A wonderful blessing that our Loving God affords to us is that the path to Him can always be restored if we will but turn our hearts back to Him. In Jeremiah 29:12-14 He states very clearly through the prophet, “You will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. You will seek Me and find Me when you shall search for Me with all Your heart. I will be found by you.”

God wants sinners to search for Him. He wants the lost to find Him. Jesus states very clearly in Luke 19:10 that His mission, His purpose for coming to earth, “…is to seek and to save the lost.” The reality is that we don’t have to look for God because Jesus has already sought us! Essentially, all we must do is to make ourselves available to be found by Him!