And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart (Jer. 29:13).
To know God, we must seek for Him. If we do seek, we shall find Him in His works, in His Word, and in our hearts. But it must be our vocation and not our avocation. We shall not find God by a glance here and there, by a careless flipping of pages, a thoughtless prayer now and then, a wandering mind. We must search as though our life depended on it, as indeed it does. We are to search with all our heart.
God demands earnestness and sincerity. Even skeptics respect that. When David Hume, the agnostic, was criticized for listening to John Brown, a Scottish minister, he replied, "I don't believe all that he says, but he does, and once a week I like to hear a man who believes what he says."
God says, "Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you" (Jer. 29:12). When? When will He hearken? When will He listen? "When ye shall search for me with all your heart." Jesus said, "Ye cannot serve God and mammon" (Matt. 6:24). We cannot hold on to God with one hand and the world with the other. If we try it, we will wind up by being wholehearted for the world and faintedhearted for God. The apostle said, "This one thing I do" (Phil. 3:13).
When Matthew, sitting at the receipt of customs, was called by Jesus, he got up and left all the money on the table and followed Him. At the Lake of Galilee the disciples had just made the most successful haul of fish in all their experience, but when they got to shore, they forsook all and followed Jesus. They were in dead earnest, and that is why they will life forever. They found God in Christ because they were wholehearted.
MEDITATION PRAYER: "Hear the right, O Lord, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips" (Ps. 17:1).
To know God, we must seek for Him. If we do seek, we shall find Him in His works, in His Word, and in our hearts. But it must be our vocation and not our avocation. We shall not find God by a glance here and there, by a careless flipping of pages, a thoughtless prayer now and then, a wandering mind. We must search as though our life depended on it, as indeed it does. We are to search with all our heart.
God demands earnestness and sincerity. Even skeptics respect that. When David Hume, the agnostic, was criticized for listening to John Brown, a Scottish minister, he replied, "I don't believe all that he says, but he does, and once a week I like to hear a man who believes what he says."
God says, "Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you" (Jer. 29:12). When? When will He hearken? When will He listen? "When ye shall search for me with all your heart." Jesus said, "Ye cannot serve God and mammon" (Matt. 6:24). We cannot hold on to God with one hand and the world with the other. If we try it, we will wind up by being wholehearted for the world and faintedhearted for God. The apostle said, "This one thing I do" (Phil. 3:13).
When Matthew, sitting at the receipt of customs, was called by Jesus, he got up and left all the money on the table and followed Him. At the Lake of Galilee the disciples had just made the most successful haul of fish in all their experience, but when they got to shore, they forsook all and followed Jesus. They were in dead earnest, and that is why they will life forever. They found God in Christ because they were wholehearted.
MEDITATION PRAYER: "Hear the right, O Lord, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips" (Ps. 17:1).
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