Time Spent…Looking and Searching For…
Psalm 119:10 (Amplified Bible)
10With my whole heart have I sought You, inquiring for and of You and yearning for You; Oh, let me not wander or step aside [either in ignorance or willfully] from Your commandments.
Proverbs 8:17 (Amplified Bible)
17I love those who love me, and those who seek me early and diligently shall find me.
I have a teenage daughter, who like most young ladies her age loves to hit the mall or Wally World for that matter (the Wal-Mart). She will often tell me that she has to go to the store for one item and hours later after she has searched for that item and related to several others we find ourselves still confined to the store or the mall that was only suppose to yield us the one item we set out in search of to begin with. I have often vowed never to enter into an agreement to attend these little outings, after a time like this, especially if my mind is in a zone to find the item and return to the solace of my days plan. Yesterday, as we discussed one such outing to purchase paint for a bathroom make over, she wanted to begin, I sat and listened to the plans as they were being laid out, but I heard so much more than the simplicity of what should have been. I heard how often we pain stakingly apply time to everything from shopping for paint to shopping and acquiring shoes, or for some men I know, they can spend an entire day on car lot after car lot in “just looking.” How ironic is this behavior, when we often do not go in search of God, through the Holy Spirit, His word, His promises, His instructions and His blessings!
I know right, that stung, it stung me too when I discovered that we rarely spend the time we should seeking out God and really knowing who He is or who His son is suppose to be in our lives. We apply and waste so much time on temporal things, and place less than minimal value, significance and time on things with eternal value and life giving properties. God sought us out when we were yet in our sin, He sent His son to die for us and to reconcile us back to Himself. He valued us so much that He was willing to sacrifice the greatest thing to find us back in His presence. So why is it so difficult for us to seek after one that loves us so much and wants us to have life abundantly? Because we would rather gain the whole world and it’s contents and often risk losing our souls. For some of us we would just rather live in mediocrity than to take time to be that one that hungers and thirst after God that it drives us into His presence in such a way that we find the precious promises and secret places in God that will afford us shelter, protection, love and life abundantly.
It is time to get in hot pursuit of God in such a way that we find Him, His nature, His character and His promises so that we can learn who He really is and learn the true value of who He is, and who He can be in our lives! Now that is time well spent!
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