LEARNING DAILY

 

Deuteronomy 4:29, But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

 

This verse is extremely important for each person, for you and for me; it will keep us on the narrow way to eternal life in God’s kingdom. Seeking God daily helps us keep focused on staying on the narrow way and helps us to stay diligent and watching for His return to get His faithful followers in what is called the rapture of the true Church. “To find God and know Him in His fullness, a person must seek Him with passion and wholehearted devotion” (LSSB). Knowing Him in this way and experiencing His power, blessings, and righteousness does not come easily and comes only to those who diligently seek Him.  That comes from Hebrews 11:6, But without faith it is impossible to please God, for He who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.”

 

Notice that one must have faith to please God. Faith in Him brings both insight and confidence that we would otherwise not have. The other aspect of faith in this regard is true faith and is not a passive belief that He exists but it is an active faith causing us to seek God and His will. It is amazing that the One who created all things from the beginning and knew each of us from before we were in the womb desires for me and you to seek Him and desires each of us to be near Him. By doing so He draws near to us and gives us the fulness of His Spirit and the gift of eternal life.

 

Let me get you to consider the last time you lost something very important or valuable to you. What did you do? You searched diligently until you found it! Right! I cannot help but believe that the way we search for that item which was lost is how God wants us to seek Him. Think for a moment about this – if we diligently seek God, do you think He will be hard to find? No! His desire is to be found by us. It is so important for us to seek Him everyday because walking the narrow way is filled with the enemy’s desire to destroy us and the desire for the old self to regain is control over you.

 

As the end of the age draws even closer, it seems to me each of us needs to be more diligent about seeking God. He has warned us of the deceptions of many false teachers and their ungodly teaching. By doing our best to seek God and knowing when we do, we will find Him, we keep our lives focused on His Word, His will and staying centered on walking the narrow way. It is my task to keep you and myself aware of doing this each day, to keep you and me encouraged as the events happening all around us are tempting us to give up. Never, never give up on your walk with the Lord on His narrow way.

 

I want to encourage you this day with my continued prayer for each of you reading this blog. It is found in Matthew 5:6, “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.” Diligently seek God! Diligently hunger and thirst for His righteousness! As you do, He will be found by you and will keep you close to Him and His righteousness.  The goal is eternal life with Him in His kingdom!

 

From now on DJSB will be used to note information or quotes from the David Jeremiah Study Bible and LSSB will refer to information and quotes from the Life in the Spirit Study Bible