“You will seek
me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.”
Jeremiah 29:13
How persistent
are you?
How faithful are
you?
If God has
spoken and the promise is slow in coming, do you hold on and remain faithful?
If you’ve
already waited 1,000 days; will you wait 1001?
When is it o.k.
to give up?
How about never?
We were reminded
on Sunday that to “…go after God is sometimes a hard thing but to ‘get hold’ of
God is even harder.”
If it seems that
God is hiding from you understand that He is asking you to pursue Him!
We don’t like
that idea.
We would rather
have God ‘served up’ in 45 minute messages after we have sung the obligatory ‘goose-bumps’
chorus.
Anything more
just isn’t worth bothering about.
Does that sound
harsh?
If so, then
consider it from the Creator’s perspective (if that were possible).
We tell Him we
will follow Him to the ends of the earth – but then that only applies if the
ends of the earth are on my couch in front of my T.V.!
OUCH!
God spoke
clearly to us not to give up and not to give in.
Instead, we were
encouraged to persevere in faithful pursuit of Him.
Like a man who
has dug holes countless times in search of oil,
we should dig countless
times plus 1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+…
Don’t grow weary
in your pursuit of God!
He’s sifting out
the easily dissuaded.
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