Found Alive In Truth

July 22

“For thus says the LORD to the house of Israel: "Seek Me and live… Seek the LORD and live, lest He break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, with no one to quench it in Bethel… He made the Pleiades and Orion; He turns the shadow of death into morning and makes the day dark as night; He calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the face of the earth; The LORD is His name. Seek good and not evil, that you may live; so the LORD God of hosts will be with you,” Amos 5:4-14.


As the Holy One spoke to His people Israel of old, so He speaks to mankind today. His admonition to them, “You shall seek Me and find Me when you shall search for Me with your whole heart,” Jeremiah 29:13, is viable today to those who want to know Him in truth.

The God who holds the constellations in the hollow of His hand can make darkest delusion and sorrow into glorious awakening. When man, lost in trespasses and the deception of the evil one that swaths him in sin has caught a glimmer of the light that is Jesus and desires freedom from “the wages of sin which is death,” Romans 6:23, he shall indeed receive, “the gift of God which is eternal life.”

But the key to any man’s release from the clutches of evil is that he seek the true and living God. To neglect His counsel to look for Him is to relegate oneself to the encumbrance of the devil’s shroud of darkness. It is to “prefer darkness rather than light,” John 3:19. Why would anyone desire darkness above light? As the verse goes on to say, it is because “his deeds are evil.”

“There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end thereof is death,” Proverbs 14:12, and we need look no further than the evening news to see thousands of people who are deluded into believing they do their god a favor by ruthlessly slaughtering people whose ideology does not strictly comply with their own.

While this is perhaps the most blatant illustration of lostness in today’s world, it can also be seen when we look at our neighbors—or perhaps when we look in the mirror. Though we may not soak the ground around us with the blood of innocents who do not subscribe to our view of god and his ultimate purposes, unless we have made Jesus Christ our Savior and Lord, we have fallen short of the treasure we seek and find when we search after the Holy One with all our heart.

Rather than presume we are justified as we are, rather than compare ourselves to the worst example of blatant misunderstanding of who God is and what He wants from those who believe in Him; rather than adjudge ourselves righteous, should we not heed His word which tells us to, “examine yourself to see if you are in the true faith,” as Paul admonishes believers to do in II Corinthians 13:5 ?

Should we not desire above all things to be found alive in the truth that is Christ who said, "I am the way, the truth, the life. No man comes to the Father but by Me," John 14:6.