I left off yesterday on earnestly seeking God.
Many people today are seeking, but are they seeking earnestly?
Today the people in the world seem to want what they want. It’s like going through a buffet line and grabbing what works for them and leaving the stuff off their plate that doesn’t appeal to them.
It is part of our fallen nature to want to do this. We have a void to fill spiritually and yet our sinful nature doesn’t match up to how we are really supposed to be, act, or believe.
God promises us that those who earnestly seek Him will find Him.
Proverbs 8:17 – 17 I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me.
Matthew 7:7-8- 7 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
I see many different religions out there and their doctrine is easily flawed. What I mean by that is it has nothing to do with taste or preference, but things don’t add up. When you put these questions out there to the people who believe, they aren’t interested in rather it adds up or not. That fact of the matter is they are comfortable where they are at.
I don’t know about you, but my normal sinful self doesn’t fit how Go’s Word wants me to act or believe at all. I’ve had to come to the realization that it makes complete sense and now I have to conform to it. It’s not naturally who I am.
In the last days we get a warning on this.
2 Timothy 4:2-5- 2 Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. 3 For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. 5 But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.
If you want to get your truth from the Buffet line, you better be in the line with the Bible and be ready to eat it all up. Otherwise picking and choosing while going over to other buffets will eventually lead to untruth. As someone who has as interest in God, we don’t want it to lead to a lie.
Animal
April 5, 2012 at 8:59 am
You had me at buffet
Joe Horner
April 5, 2012 at 9:02 am
So true Pat. I have not been reading my Bible consistently for a few weeks, and my spirit was dying. I didn’t know it. I was looking at the things of the world to fill in me what was missing. I confided in a good friend last night who asked me about my time in the Word lately. I admitted that it was hit or miss. I recommitted to do the things that I knew would bring life at that moment.
This morning I woke up and read Proverbs 5, which has been my habit in the past. Got to the last verse in the chapter and I felt like I had been hit with a bat. It was verse 23. “He who forsakes discipline will die. It is amazing how timely God’s Word can be. We just need to be willing to be there daily.