- Deuteronomy 4:29
You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.- (God) Jeremiah 29:13
These two verses clearly state what my pastor called the "Seeker's Promise" yesterday, the promise being that if you seek after the Lord with all your heart (with all that you can) you will find him. Sadly enough, many people decide to not make a decision about God. That in itself is a decision against God. There is no limbo, or purgatory in the relationship with God - only known and unknown. Think about it, if there was someone who wanted to be your friend, but you weren't sure about him or her, and you decided to avoid them so that you would not have to make a decision about whether or not you liked him or her and wanted him or her to be your friend, wouldn't that avoidance of the person (and the issue of friendship) be the same as a rejection of that person and that friendship? Though the analogy breaks down eventually, the same logic is at stake here. Most people don't want to take the time to figure out who God is, so they reject him and push him aside because it would be too much trouble to begin to know him.
And the acquisition of any knowledge of God is not easy, that's why God says you must do it with all your heart - he doesn't want less than all of you, and if you commit less than all of you to the task, you might find a god who requires less than all of you - and that would not be the True God.
The quandary of whether or not to pursue God brings to mind the lines from a poem whose title I can't remember, but the author talks about coming to a point in a path were he had two choices of where to go, and states something along the lines of, "...and I took the path less traveled, and that has made all the difference."
Lastly let me note that just because something is hard to acquire or accomplish doesn't make it bad. If all of life were easy, none of us would have need for any decent measure of strength. It is the struggles and battles of life which separate the naivete and weakness of childhood from the maturity and strength of adulthood.
And the acquisition of any knowledge of God is not easy, that's why God says you must do it with all your heart - he doesn't want less than all of you, and if you commit less than all of you to the task, you might find a god who requires less than all of you - and that would not be the True God.
The quandary of whether or not to pursue God brings to mind the lines from a poem whose title I can't remember, but the author talks about coming to a point in a path were he had two choices of where to go, and states something along the lines of, "...and I took the path less traveled, and that has made all the difference."
Lastly let me note that just because something is hard to acquire or accomplish doesn't make it bad. If all of life were easy, none of us would have need for any decent measure of strength. It is the struggles and battles of life which separate the naivete and weakness of childhood from the maturity and strength of adulthood.
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