“You will seek Me and find Me when you seek Me with all your heart.” Jeremiah 29:13
Seeking God isn’t a casual thing that we might pick up from time to time and then lay to one side if we don’t quite get there. If our search for God is lacklustre like that, He says that we won’t find Him. It is said that every person has a God-shaped hole inside them, a spiritual emptiness as the result of Adam’s sin, that can only be filled by God. Yet people go seeking after all kinds of things in attempts to fill that void with something else – business success, intellectual pursuits, fame and fortune, or turning to other religions to find meaning in life. Without God, all these are meaningless.
Our quest for God must be sincere. We will never stumble across Him by accident, but there must be a deliberate search. If someone is really serious about finding God, they will find Him. God won’t hide Himself from anybody. But nor will He reveal Himself to someone who doesn’t really care one way or another, who happened to say one day, ‘I wonder if there is a God?’ No, we must seek God with our whole heart; everything that we are. And once we have found Him, we are to devote everything that we are to Him. You can’t be a part-time Christian. It’s all or nothing.
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