Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. Matt 7:7 (NIV)
PART 3 – Find and Seek
This was also part of Jesus “Sermon on the Mount”… spoken probably about 10 minutes after he said “Seek first the Kingdom of God.” God's Kingdom cannot be attained in its fullness is a single moment. It's something that we search out for the entirety of our lives, and perhaps even eternity.
But something happens to some of us when we ‘find’ God. We stop searching. We stop seeking. We live as if we have arrived, when really, the search has only just begun. There is so much in God to discover, so much to learn about faith and grace and ourselves and Jesus and the Bible and humanity and goodness and light… more than we can possibly uncover in one lifetime. It’s a sad thing to live with the idea that there is no more to learn, yet we all do it to some degree. We lose that wide-eyed wonder we saw the world with when we were children. We stop asking “why?” (maybe because we annoyed too many with that question when we were young…) we’ve stopped looking under the rocks at the waters edge, we don’t have time to explore the hidden path at the end of the road, or take a road trip up north just for sake of exploring.
We stand still so much that we forget how wonderful it feels to discover, move and wander through life.
Jesus asks us to be seekers. People who never live as if they have arrived at truth, or finality, or wisdom or love or hope or peace… But to be people who understand that just as life constantly bends and twists and morphs and moves, through each of its changes, there is something about God that can be found at that moment unlike any other…
What do you want out of life? Are you chasing career? Romance? Revenge? Wealth? Are you seeking to help others and make a positive change? Maybe you want to build an incredible family and raise healthy and whole children? Maybe you’re desperate for healing? Do you want answers? Are you confused? Feel left out and wrong?
In all your desires, heartaches, goals, ideas, hopes, prayers, cries, joys and dreams… seek God in them. Make the pursuit of him and his love the centre, the spear head, the compass of your life. And all these things, all of it… everything within you and around about you will find meaning in him. You don’t have to give up on your dreams or neglect your heartaches in order to ’seek God first’… it's not one or the other, it's about what's leading and driving you through the unique path your life takes.
Knock, ask, seek… keep on moving. Don’t stand still. You will surely find what you’re looking for, and will continue to find it all the days of your life.
Go to PART 4 – Success Seeking »
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