Tag: seeking

Lest We forget…

Lest I forget Gethsemane,
Lest I forget thine agony,
Lest I forget thy love for me,
Lead me to Calvary.

It’s only through the cross that we have life. Only because Jesus lived and died for us! He gave His every breath, His every word and deed for us. His every step, His every thought, every miracle and teaching was for us! When he ate it was for us, when he drank it was for us! He does not live for possessions, He does not live for wealth, He does not live for health!!! He died for us!!! He rose for us!!! He lives for me!!! He lives for us!!! Everything Jesus Christ, the son of God, did was for us!!! EVERYTHING!!! What do we give?

He expects and deserves no less from us!!! He commands EVERY PART OF US!!!

Romans 12
1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

It’s all or nothing. We either lose our lives for His sake, deny our earthly pleasures and live our lives to seek Him only, and in so doing find life abundant!! Glorious, all satisfying, joyous life!! or… We don’t, we enjoy this life here on earth, comfortable, achieving success, knowledge, acceptance… and miss the mark and die in our own self-righteousness.

Luke 9
23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
24 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.

Luke 14
33 So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.

Seeking Above All Else

Jeremiah 29
13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with your whole heart.
14 And I will be found of you, saith the Lord.

Nothing complicated. Never as been. All of scripture echoes the same pattern. The creator God, the one true Living God will live with those who seek Him wholly. What else would you want?

So what is seeking? We will only find God when we seek Him with our whole heart. There is no room for seeking anything else. Some seek to achieve, some seek to please, some seek to serve, some seek to satisfy, some seek to gain, some seek good and some seek to learn… There is no room!!

Jesus is the answer! He is all our hope, our strength, our learning! He is all that satisfies. Without Christ we can not…. anything! It is repeated so often in the scriptures. We will only find Him when He is all that we are seeking.

What does that look like? Well firstly consider what you don’t mind doing instead of seeking Christ then… stop doing it! It’s only then that we find Christ and He becomes all our good, all our learning, all our satisfaction, all our power….

Seek Jesus, Jesus only!