Seek and Find

I like it that God doesn't play hide and seek. That game was always so frustrating to me. Maybe it's because I have this great desire to win, every time in every game. I'm a competitive type, I know it and have to be careful that way. It isn't pretty either!

Rather, God plays seek and find. God, instead of being hidden, stands in plain sight just waiting for us to begin the process of seeking. Amazingly (or actually not so amazing really) when we seek God, we find Him! He's sometimes like the elephant in the middle of the room that no one wants to talk about. We're afraid of what God might say about our lives, our behaviors, our past, our direction for the future. We're afraid what God might require of us, ask us to do, how to live. So often we don't seek. And when we don't seek, we rarely find.

"Listen carefully...God will stick with you as long as you stick with him. If you look for him he will let himself be found; but if you leave him he'll leave you. For a long time Israel didn't have the real God, nor did htey have the help of priest or teacher or book. But when they were in trouble and got serious, and decided to seek God, the God of Israel, God let himself be found." (2 Chronicles 15:2-4, Msg)

God is found when we seek.

God sticks close to us as we stay close to Him.

But if we abandon God...look out!

I'd rather keep seeking and discovering the blessings God brings than "reap the whirlwind" that this world brings to destroy us.

Keep seeking!
Peace ><>
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