Psalm 63:1 “O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you.”
My six-year-old went to his first football lesson and came back saying: “Daddy, I’ve learnt to play football now. I don’t need any more lessons.” He thought he’d arrived because he could connect his foot to the ball. He didn’t know there was a little more to it than that. He needed to go a whole lot deeper.
Some people can be like that with God as well. Tozer warns of us being among the number of those who think they’ve got it nailed. Whereas the apostle “Paul was a seeker and a finder and a seeker still, they seek and find and seek no more. After ‘accepting’ Christ they tend to substitute logic for life and doctrine for experience. For them the truth becomes a veil to hide the face of God; for Paul it was a door into his very Presence. Paul’s spirit was that of the loving explorer. He was a prospector among the hills of God searching for the gold of personal spiritual acquaintance.”
That last paragraph is worth re-reading. Paul alluded to heavenly visions that he shouldn’t even share with people (2 Corinthians 12:2), such was his privileged and intimate relationship with Jesus, and yet still prayed ‘I want to know Christ.’ Of course he already knew him, but how much deeper there was to go in that experiential knowledge!
Sadly I sometimes have to question how much of my spiritual activity boils down to managing God instead of seeking him. How about you? And for some of us, the turning point of our lives will come when we stop seeking the God we want, and start seeking the God who is.
So take heart today! God wants to be found. He promises we can find him. As Jeremiah 29:13 says: “You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.”
Lord, whatever I go through today, I choose to seek you with all my heart. Amen!
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