Seek The Lord

Isaiah 55:6-9

6 Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near.

7 Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts. Let him turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him and to our God, for he will freely pardon.

8 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD.

9 "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
(from New International Version)


seek : darash (daw-rash'); a primitive root; properly, to tread or frequent; usually to follow (for pursuit or search); by implication, to seek or ask; specifically to worship: KJV - ask, at all, care for, diligently, inquire, make inquisition, question, require, search, seek [for, out], surely.
(Biblesoft's New Exhaustive Strong's Numbers and Concordance with Expanded Greek-Hebrew Dictionary. Copyright (c) 1994, Biblesoft and International Bible Translators, Inc.)

I was hunting with a friend of mine one weekend out in South Texas. I was riding around on a four wheeler seeking a wounded deer. I stopped for a water break and noticed that my rifle was gone! The strap had been torn by some Mesquite thorns and fell off my four wheeler. Now I am tearing through cactus and Mesquite thorns getting ripped to ribbons trying to find what I am seeking. I spent fourteen hours looking for this deer and about an hour looking for my rifle. As I was persevering through the brush, sweating, bleeding, and fighting off hunger pains, the Lord spoke to me, “This is how you should seek me.”

Honestly “how hard do we seek after the Lord?” In a self centered comfort driven society going to ‘Church’ is considered seeking God. Going to Church is just a fraction of seeking after God. To seek God is to diligently persevere to make all your thoughts God’s thoughts, all your desires God’s desires. It is to hunger and crave righteousness as an addict craves his next fix. Seeking God is a never ending desire that comes from deep within our soul that desires to surrender our fleshly worldly desires and do what is right in the eyes of God. The Bible teaches us what is the right way to live, the right way to love, and how to forgive. To seek God is also to love what God loves and hate what God hates (Hate evil, love good; Amos 5:15).

Just as our body daily craves food so does our soul crave the words of God. Part of seeking God is to pray to God and read the bible. The real challenge is living the will of God and putting into practice what we know is the right thing to do no matter what other people will say or think about us. What is important is what does God think about us? How does God feel about our relationship? Read the definition of ‘seek’ and ask yourself does this describe my heart towards my relationship with God? There is only one way to seek God and that is with all your heart, all your mind, all your soul, and all your strength.