Seek the LORD while he may
be found; call on him while he is near. Isaiah 55:6
“I’ll
get my life straight when I’m old,” Juan boasted. “I’ve got plenty of livin’ to
do before then!”
“I know I should get right
with God,” Emilie confessed. “But that means I’d have to change some things,
and I’m not ready.”
“Yeah,
I’ll get serious about spiritual things one day,” said Pat. “But I’m so busy
right now at work, I just don’t have time.”
These
people are all making a huge and costly assumption. They are assuming that God
will work within their timetables and that when they have decided they are
ready for Him, He will come running. But the Bible tells us that the opposite
happens. Jesus said that no one can come to Him unless the Father first draws
him (John
6:44). He
means that our hearts have no desire
to repent, to change, or to know God unless the Holy Spirit has first prepared
us. So God commands us to seek Him while we can, because that option may not
always be available. To seek Him means we first acknowledge that He exists.
Second, we agree that He is who His word says He is and that we need Him. Then
we ask Him to reveal truth to our hearts and we act upon whatever truth we have
been given. We seek God when a hunger has begun gnawing within our souls for
something that this world cannot offer. That hunger was placed there by God
Himself to cause us to seek Him. And because His character is so vast, we can
seek Him all our lives and never come to the end of all He is and all He wants
to reveal to us.
Are you seeking the Lord while He may be found?
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