Searching For The One Who Has Already Found Us.

If you know me, you know that losing things and then looking for things is a regular part of my everyday existence.

Nikki bought me “tile” for my birthday so I can beep and ring my wallet and keys, which is something I do almost every time I need to leave the house.

But there are only so many tiles and so there is always looking for the book, or the computer mouse, or the paper I printed, or the screwdriver that I took out of the toolbox 20 minutes ago when I started the project and then took a call on my cell phone.

Someone once recommended I buy a book on getting organized so I bought it and brought it home to read it.  I’ll let you know when I find it.

The frustrating thing, for me at least, about looking is the uncertainty of finding.

But we are guaranteed to find God when we earnestly seek Him.

“O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you;

my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.

So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory.

Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you.

 So I will bless you as long as I live; in your name I will lift up my hands.”

(Psalm 63:1–4 ESV)

David gives us this picture of someone who is seeking God like a man who is seeking water in a dry and thirsty land.  This is the level of earnest that David seeks after the Lord.

David has good reason to seek after God with such fervor.  He said that he has looked upon God in the sanctuary and that he had witnessed God’s power and glory.  David wasn’t a priest, therefore he was not permitted in the Most Holy Place in the sanctuary, but David saw God’s work and knew the presence and power of the Lord was with him and with the nation of Israel during his reign.

Here we have a bit of a paradox.

David sought after a God who was with him already. God had already found David.

And so do we, we know we have the presence and power of God in our midst.  The Holy Spirit has come to live within us and we are sealed for the day of redemption.  We know that the Lord will never leave us or forsake us. We have already been found by God.

Yet we too have times in which we need to seek God in earnest so that we can find the wisdom in confusing times, strength in troubled times, and courage when we are otherwise overcome by fear.

Let’s not forget to seek daily the One Who has already found us.

Keep safe, be well, and stay encouraged.

Brian