“You can’t find it by standing there looking.” This is something we have said on many occasions to our children when they were looking for something that was missing – homework assignments, lost shoes, misplaced books and so on. There have been so many times that our children’s “search” was little more than their standing in a room staring at all the clutter.
If you truly want to find something that you have lost you have to invest some effort in the search. You have to apply yourself to the task of searching.
Today’s reading is a single sentence from a letter that Jeremiah sent to the exiles from Israel. He was reminding them that they should not stray from God even though they were in a foreign land. What promise does God offer? What do they need to do to get that promise?
Although we may not be in exile from our home country, we may feel that we are not as close to God as we could be. We may be dedicated Christians who attend worship on a regular basis, but we still may not know Jesus as we should.
But we cannot find Jesus by waiting. We cannot build a deeper relationship with Christ by going about our daily lives hoping that the Almighty will break in with signs and wonders. To learn more about Jesus we can’t always expect others to bring us that knowledge.
We must remember that God wants a relationship with us. God desires us to be with Him and in many ways the Lord seeks us out. But He also asks that we seek for Him. We must put forth some effort to learn and understand who God truly is.
And if we desire a relationship with Jesus Christ, we must seek him out as well. We must make an effort to learn the teachings of Jesus. We must take the time to be in communion with the Christ, studying the Scripture to uncover who Jesus truly is. We must move the clutter of our lives and the obstacles of our fears or indifference. We must remove those things that block our true vision – myths and legends and false teachings – to find the true nature of Jesus.
We can seek and find the Lord. He is waiting for us to find Him. He wants us to find Him. But we are called to seek Him with all of our heart.
DAILY CHALLENGE: What can you do to seek the Lord?
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