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Why we don't seek God |
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We don’t want to seek God because
we’re afraid that if he talks to us that not only we might obey but
a lot more scary is having to explain to others what He said,
especially if our knowledge of the scriptures isn’t all what it
should be. Reading the bible is a fine occupation, but it was never
meant to replace any and all utterances that we know by the witness
of our spirits that it was Him talking in the 1st place. Often you
will hear from many that are not only novices, but mainly from those
who don’t know his voice, that the bible is the final say. Imagine
that you are on the threshold of a new discovery in science, but
here comes a complete novice who points out to you that what you
think is a new discovery, is in fact a sham and a falsehood. The
only time one could emphatically use scriptures to make a point is
to point out that if someone tells you that there is another way for
your sins to be washed away saved by the blood of Jesus, then they
are in gross error. But, beyond that, the sky is the limit. Try to
not lose sight of the fact that the scriptures is a compilation of
many a man and women of God who either heard from God or had a
vision or visions and had many experiences along the way. The
ultimate witness has to be your spirit, not your carnal mind; which
can never know God; that tries in vain to decipher the mind/will of
God from were wood pulp and ink… might as well start reading tea
leaves. When Peter says to Jesus that he is the Son of God he does
this by 1st knowing in his spirit that Jesus is thus and so, and it
is this same revelation by which even the gates of Hell itself can
not prevail against. Then there are other problems with seeking God. Some feel that they have to fast and/or be on their knees. My advice is to make yourself comfortable. The discipline of seeking God can be summed up in one word “WAIT”. Yes, learn to wait on the Lord…here a little and there a little, line upon line and precept upon precept… It often takes many years of waiting on the Lord to develop an arsenal of statements and experiences from which to draw on. If your image of God tends to be a task master and harsh, then it a good many cases He’ll act like this in keeping with a spiritual principal of ‘he that cometh to God must believe that he is’. Whatever you believe God to be that He will be to you. Yes God is greater than our hearts. Things take time. Be in no hurry, He will always come thru. Waiting on the Lord might start out with you staying in one place for a time, but otherwise waiting on the Lord is a state of mind, not about the geographical position of your body. Jer 33:3 “Call unto me and I will answer thee and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not. Hopefully a day will come that all will know his voice and with this symbiotic synergy a great many accomplishments shall be had for the people, nature, the earth and the universe….surely heaven will have come down to earth. I myself when I 1st started to seek God I had such great and marvelous things happen so fast that I was astonished. Telling other fellow Christians that I was waiting on God hardly meant anything to them, because a lot of them thought once you got ‘saved’ why seek God. The flipside of this was if I was still seeking him, then I needed to find Jesus as my savior. Waiting on God is the foundation of any ministry. It is the foundation of the Priest Hood in the OT: Isa 40:31 “and they that wait upon the Lord shall mount up with wings as eagles, they shall walk and not be weary, and run and not be faint” Even if you are not a ministry, you owe it to yourself and others to wait on Him so you will have a renewed vision about your walk and in like manner encourage others to do the same. Waiting is like solitary confinement; its not bible study or singing in the choir or helping grandma across the street. We might all say that we are Kings and Priest thru Christ Jesus, but what steps are we going to take to fill that office or High Calling? You believe it exist and that it is possible, so now show your faith/walk to at least yourself and God and many wonderful things will follow. This beginning walk with God, waiting on the Lord, is going to be a Cross in and of itself. Once this discipline has a firm root in you will never waiver in your walk, and no matter the persecution that you will get from other well meaning Christians, you will be able to stand alone and secure in His presence. |
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