Seeking God

Seek the LORD while He may be found; 

call upon Him while He is near; 

let the wicked forsake his way, 

and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
let him return to the LORD, 

that He may have compassion on him, 

and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon. 

For My thoughts are not your thoughts, 

neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD.  

For as the heavens are higher that the earth, 

so are My ways higher than your ways 

and My thoughts than your thoughts. Isa 55

This is one of my favorite passages from the Bible. I love how it encouraged the wicked and the unrighteous to return to the Lord out of their wrong ways and thoughts. It is never not a good day to seek God. Frank Laubach talks about asking the Lord for His thoughts since they are higher than ours, for what thoughts would He give us if we only asked? Opening yourself up to listening, to seeking is a way to experience more of God.

I cannot begin to tell you the beauty that the Lord has revealed to me over the years of pursuing Him intentionally through music and prayer. The glory, the beauty, the grace, the strength and the passion that the human race is looking for-- are at His feet and in His face. As your Grammy likes to quote -- we are homesick for God and when we have Him, we are at home. The aching heart we have for the unattainable is blessedly soothed when we make eye contact with the One we irresistibly love. 

Music is a gift for the emotions from God. How should you help your heart obey in difficulty? Or believe against the odds? Fall on your face. And sing. Declare His praise till your heart lifts and your emotions catch up to your will. Take the eyes of your heart off yourself and place them on the hills where your help comes from. Let Him serenade you with truth to remind you of how the world really is and Who holds the victory. 

Seeking the Lord develops your own personal interaction with God. It wards off a religious shell and keeps the genuine heart of relationship at the center of talk and action in the Christian life. Shallow talk is replaced with Spirit-sensitivity to others and Martha-activity takes on colors and aromas of Mary life because He is there. When you remember He is with you still, always, now, tomorrow, and forever, life loses much of its urgency and is compounded with joy. 

In college my dorm room was on the hall closest to the famous prayer towers at CIU. Through all the heart ache, loneliness, insecurity, struggle and confusion at that time of life-crossroads, the prayer towers was my place to wrestle it all out with God, seeking His heart and direction that He would desire for me. I remember times of reaching out to heaven, the dark skies bright with stars, alive with the glory of the Loving Savior who really was bending down to listen and speak to me. 

Seeking the Lord is done on your part. He doesn’t force it on you. You freely chose to love Him back by pursuing and listening to Him. I have never regretted my time spent. After an experience of His presence, I only stand amazed at what I would have missed if I hadn’t taken the time! I am very fully convinced that my times with Him are the very best part of me. 

Blessed Jesus, may my girl love Your presence. May she want to be with You more than anything in this world. Make her a woman after Your heart with a passion for Your beauty. May temptations pale in comparison to the joy she experiences at Your feet.  May You be her true fierce love to the very bottom of who she is. May Your Spirit be on her so strongly that others get a glimpse of Your glory. 

I love you.

Momma