What is it to seek God?

I am quite sure I barely know the answer.  We talk about it. Men preach about it.  Books are written about it.  But do we do it? Can we understand it?  Why do we seek God?

The answer seems barely known because the God who is sought is so great.  And even in writing that, the sentence, the words, seem so infinitesimally small for such a God as ours.

But He is to be sought.  He promises to be found.

“And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.” Jeremiah 29:13

“But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.”  Deuteronomy 4:29

That “all” part is perhaps part of our problem.  There are so many distractions, so much busyness.  How many of us have truly decided, as James Fraser did, that seeking God is he most important part of our ministries?  Do we really agree with, “I used to think that prayer should have the first place and teaching the second. I now feel that it would be truer to give prayer the first, second and third place, and teaching the fourth?”  Is seeking God first, second, and third place to most of us?  Is it truly?

Can we understand it?  Yes.  We are told to do it, thus is must be within the realm of our comprehension.  Yet, the magnitude of the One we are seeking, I think, makes human understanding seem minuscule.  Yet, He, think about that...He wants us to seek Him.  He wants us to seek Him.

What is our motive?  This is a concerning question.  I almost hear a panic in many voices as they proclaim their fear that they will not be used of God.  Is being “used” the chief motive?  Is having the appearance of His blessing upon our life what we are after?  Or are we after Him and Him alone?  Do we seek Him even when all, all, all around us suggests nothing of His goodness?

Is He what we really want to find?  I fear, if we are completely honest, what we really want is Him plus some other “blessing,” whether small or great.  And, God in His mercy and grace, very often gives those things.  But, what should our heart be?  Simply and only seeking Him.  Him.

He is there.  He is good.  He is healing.  He is might.  He is love. He is sufficient.  He is.  And He is to be found.  Seek Him.