How can we find God?
Before a man can seek God, God must
first have sought the man.
We are all lost, cut out of the source
of love, light and life.
Without the true reason for our being,
the reason that made us exist.
We breath, we act, but we do not truly
live.
We are hollow and incomplete.
All the time, at every moment, there is something missing, something that we almost remember.
A voice that we almost hear, a sweet
taste we almost feel in our mouths.
A memory of a smell like mother’s
milk, nourishment beyond everything else.
The touch that made us whole.
The light that made us see.
“As the deer pants for water, so I
long for you, O God. I thirst for God, the living God. Where can I
find him to come and stand before him?”
Psalm 42:1-2, Living Bible (TLB)
How can we find it when we do not know
what it is?
How can we start looking when we don’t
even admit that something is missing?
The only reason we pursue God, is
because He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit.
So it can be said, that before a
sinful man can think a right thought of God, there must have been a work of
enlightenment done within him.
“The impulse to pursue God originates
with God but the outworking of that impulse is our following hard after Him.”
A. W. Tozer – Pursuit of God
And the most wonderful thing, the
mystery and miracle of it all is –
All the time we are pursuing God, we
are already in His hand.
“Listen to me, all of you in far-off
lands: The Lord called me before my birth. From within the womb he called me by
my name.”
Isaiah 49:1
We were his before we were even born.
We were with Him before we even
started to look.
We were His, before we even started to
wonder.
“Never! Can a mother forget her little
child and not have love for her own son? Yet even if that should be, I will not
forget you.”
Isaiah 49:15
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