Have You Found God?

IF YOU SEEK HIM HE WILL BE FOUND BY YOU. 1 Chronicles 28.9.

No one can understand the heart of a father when he gives his son some significant counsel, unless he too is a father! Here King David was giving his son, Solomon, the king-designate, the command to build a temple for His God. It was David’s one great desire to build it for His God whom he loved with all his heart. Great was this one man’s love and devotion to God in spite of all his fallen man’s human traits. When the LORD sought out a man after his own heart to appoint him leader of his people, the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY said, “David is a man after My own heart!”

The only desire the dying king David had for his son Solomon, the new king of Israel, was that ‘he would come to know his father’s God and be faithful to Him!’ I know the heartache of many a godly father whose sons and daughters did not follow their footsteps of seeking God and loving and serving Him faithfully.

We were delighted to welcome to our home once, the evangelist son of a good friend, a great Indian evangelist and ardent church planter. The boy did take an excursion into the world of sin in spite of his background. But the gracious Lord brought him back from his unbelief as he sincerely sought after Him.

Dear friends, that is God’s precious promise to you. Read carefully today’s text from the mouth of a man like David, who knew and experienced what he said, “If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will reject you forever”. What David told his son Solomon was the same thing the Lord Almighty has promised, “When you look for me, you will find me. When you wholeheartedly seek me, I will let you find me, declares the LORD” (Jer 28.13,14).

How do you seek God? ‘Seeking God’ is a common cliché among Christians. It can mean anything from attending church; praying sometimes; reading the Bible occasionally and that may be all! Or it could be, and of course it should be, as David said, “My son Solomon, acknowledge the God of your father, and serve him with wholehearted devotion and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands every motive behind the thoughts”.

Dear believer, ‘it is time that you make a break from your mediocre Christian life. It is time to seek your God with the desperateness of David!’ It is time you begin to serve Him will all your heart. Whatever you will achieve or accumulate in the world will all be lost and forgotten when you are gone! Only one life and ONLY what is done for Christ will count! David is not remembered for his kingship but his love for God.

Dear friend, if you haven’t found God yet, or you haven’t found Him satisfying, it is because you haven’t sought Him and searched for Him with all your heart. Why not seek Him NOW?

Pray and practise with me: Dear Lord, You called me saying, “Come to me and I will give you..!” Lord, I come with all my heart. Fill my inmost being with You and let it overflow to others too! Amen.