Seek and You Shall Find
…but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it Joshua 1:8, ESV
The statement “seek and you shall find” is so true. No matter what we are looking for when we seek it with all of our heart, we find it. I could not find my earrings but I kept searching for them. I looked under the bed, in my dresser drawers and all the places that I normally put them but they were not there. I kept looking and in desperation I said “God can you show me where I put those earrings?” It was a couple of months later when I was packing for a trip I came across those earrings. I had put them in a jewelry holder in my suitcase from another trip and forgot to take them out.
God says that if we seek Him we will find Him (Matthew 7:7-8). I thought about how long I searched for those earrings. Every time I went into my room or went to put on another pair of earrings I was on the lookout for those earrings. They were always in the back of my mind. This brought to my mind this scripture about meditating on the word of God day and night: …but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it (Joshua 1:8). When I first heard that scripture I wondered, how can I meditate on the word of God day and night? Meditating is constantly pondering, thinking deeply about something. I was meditating on those earrings because I wanted to find them. In the same like manner if we want to find God we have to seek Him out and meditate on his word.
In everything we do, we should be seeking God. He should always be in our heart and in our soul. You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes (Deuteronomy 11:18, ESV). I used to think that seeking God required me to have all my study material out and sit with Him all day long. This is true, we do need to always have time for study, but God is saying daily let the word be in your heart. Let your thoughts be on how God wants to use you throughout your day. Be on the lookout for an opportunity to serve. Purposefully focus on a scripture or a verse of a song throughout the day. The other day God gave me this simple line of a song “atmosphere to shift now, chains be broken, break out, Holy Spirit come down heaven open, heaven open”. Just that simple line kept ringing in my head over and over. I found myself humming it all day. Then it led me into prayer.
That simple line does not seem like much but it is very powerful and it kept my mind focused on God. I found myself seeing people in hard situations and I would say “Holy Spirit, shift the atmosphere, break the chains, let your presence rain down on them. Yes, all day I was seeking God and meditating on His word. Seek me and you will find me. God wants to be found. He puts the desire in us to seek him!
Affirmations: Matthew 10:20; Luke 24:32; Ephesians 6:19, Isaiah 55:11
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