Seeking Him! (part 1 of 2)

Man makes promises and sometimes either forgets he has made them or just simply fails to follow through. Not so with God. As Israel had moved in to take over the territory of the promised land, there was not one of the promises God had made that failed to come to pass. ( Joshua 21:45) What God has said, He will do ( Numbers 23:19) and that goes just as much for His warnings as His promises.

When Jesus taught to seek and we would find ( Matthew 7:7-8), the action was attached to a promise we can count on. Are we actively seeking? Are we seeking that which is worth seeking?

Note Isaiah’s exhortation to the people of God.
“(6) SEEK THE LORD WHILE HE MAY BE FOUND; call upon him while he is near; (7) let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. (8) For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. (9) For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” ( Isaiah 55:6-9 ESV)

We ought to be sure we are seeking the Lord. His Will, not ours, should be what is most important to us. But according to Isaiah’s statement here, it appears a time may come when the OPPORTUNITY to seek Him might be lost.
Today we should be diligently seeking God and His Will. We may not have the OPPORTUNITY tomorrow. We must recognize this to be one thing we dare not put off. Felix was going to wait for a more OPPORTUNE time. ( Acts 24:25) It doesn’t appear that such a time ever really came for him. He should have seized the OPPORTUNITY afforded him by Paul. King Agrippa also had an OPPORTUNITY. ( Acts 26:28) Throughout the Scriptures we find some who took advantage of the OPPORTUNITY to learn about and seek the things of God while others put it off, and it is no different today.

Let us be sure we continue to seek the Lord while He may be found; while He still provides us with the OPPORTUNITY to find Him. And may we help others, as well, to understand the urgency of seizing the OPPORTUNITY they now have. For the time will come when we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. ( 2 Corinthians 5:10)

Tomorrow, Lord willing, we will note further reason mentioned in the above passage from Isaiah for seeking the Lord. But for today, let us be sure we are diligently seeking the Lord and His Will. Presently it is the only OPPORTUNITY we have.

Have a great day FINDING GOD’S BLESSING THROUGH SEEKING HIS WILL!
Carl

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