seek

Tuesday, October 5, 2010 (7:22 a.m.)

Oo-ya Lord!

How’s that for pure praise and adoration? Straight from my heart, just to say “I love You!”

This morning I am seeking You. To be even more exact, I am seeking HOW to seek You. “While Paul was waiting in Athens (Acts 17:16) he was upset to see all the idols in the city.” As he spoke to the various groups of people there, “they invited him to the forum at Mars Hill” (19).

“So Paul, standing before them at the Mars Hill forum, addressed them as follows: ‘Men of Athens, I notice that you are very religious, for as I was out walking I saw your many altars, and one of them had this inscription on it – ‘To the Unknown God.’ You have been worshiping him without knowing who he is, and now I wish to tell you about him. He made the world and everything in it, and since he is Lord of heaven and earth, he doesn’t live in man-made temples; and human hands can’t minister to his needs – for he has no needs! He himself gives life and breath to everything, and satisfies every need there is. He created all the people of the world from one man, Adam, and scattered the nations across the face of the earth. He decided beforehand which should rise and fall, and when. He determined the boundaries. His purpose in all of this is that they should seek after God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him – though he is not far from any one of us. For in him we live and move and are! As one of your own poets says it, ‘We are the sons of God.’ If this is true, we shouldn’t think of God as an idol made by men from gold or silver or chipped from stone. God tolerated man’s past ignorance about these things, but now he commands everyone to put away idols and worship only him. For he has set a day for justly judging the world by the man he has appointed, and has pointed him out by bringing him back to life again” (22-31).

Again I read Your Word and see myself. Lord, I confess the far too many times I try to carve You into a god of my own understanding. The Life Recovery Bible has this to say, “Even though God may be unknown to us, He is near and willing to reveal Himself. God promised ‘You will find me when you seek me, if you look for me in earnest’ (Jeremiah 29:13). Turning over our will involves becoming willing to accept God as He is, instead of insisting on creating Him in our own image. When we seek God with an open heart and mind, we will find Him.”

Once again, You provide my every need. I confessed to not knowing HOW to seek You and I end up reading “with an open heart and mind”. Thank You Lord for providing our every need. Help me seek You this day that I would find You. I love You so very much. Amen.

(530 words ~ 8:45 a.m.)