Seek-N-Find

"And you will seek Me and FIND me, when you search for Me with ALL your heart."
Jeremiah 29:13

After 23 years as a Christian I just recently discovered what it truly means to seek God. To me seeking God just meant praying. My prayers always consisted of the same ol' recipe...
A dab of repentance
A dash of thanking God for blessings in my life
A heap of requests ( more like demands)

Yes, God answered many of those prayers and has always provided for my family. Yet, I wasn't searching for God with all of my heart...only searching for ways He could do things for me. Through these routine prayers, I never felt like I had "found" God and knew Him. God is my creator, my Heavenly father, and the ultimate friend. I should be able to converse with Him and recogize His voice when He's trying to speak to me just like I can with my earthly father and earthly friends.

As I talked about in my first post, I purchased and started a Bible study called God Seeker and it opened my eyes to what truly seeking God is. It's not just repeating the same old prayer whenever is convenient to my busy schedule. It is creating a specific place and time to meet with God, to get into His word, to praise Him, to humble myself and cry before Him, to boldly come to His throne expecting mighty works on my behalf, to learn to trust and rely totally on Him...but most importantly...to LISTEN to His voice. A family member of mine gave me this plaque that I have placed in my "tent of meeting." (I'll explain the "tent of meeting" soon!) It is a reminder to me to MAKE time for listening to God and not to let the worries and stresses of the world drown out God and His voice.

Before Jeremiah 29:13 truly became real to me, I wasn't seeking God and when I did "have to pray" I almost dreaded it. That was because it was a one-way conversation on my part and neither God nor I was getting anything out of it! Now that seeking God has become real to me and part of my everyday life, I look forward to it and dread when that time comes to an end!

It is now very late and I'm going to head to bed. I do so with anticipation though of my morning "tent time" with God! (Promise...I will explain all the tent talk soon!)