All my heart?

'You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.'

Jeremiah 29.13

People frequently complain that God is nowhere to be found, far away, distant; and yet I wonder how often those same people actually look for God with all their heart. It's too easy to treat God like any other 'lost' item, we search all the obvious places that are right before our eyes; say a prayer or two, ask Him to show himself, maybe even have a very real desire in our heart to find Him, but never a desire so strong that it moves us to action. To seek with all our heart. I guess that's the real challenge.

How improtant is it to find God?

Is it so important to me that I put absolutely everything I have into finding Him? I guess we have to empty ourselves of all our other desires in order for God to come in and overwhelm us with Him. God will never be demoted to second place and so it's either all or nothing, I think that's what scares us! We like to be able to do a bit of this and a bit of that, always going wherever the moment or impulse leads. To commit your entire life and heart to one way can be frightening, unless the way is proven.

The promise can't be missed!

If I seek with all my heart, I will find.

Find God!

The excitement is only lost if the meaning of God is lost. If God means nothing then finding him means nothing. It is a worthless pursuit and could never be worthy of a whole heart. However, if it means complete safety, complete security, complete satisfaction, complete love, complete forgiveness, complete hope . . . completeness! Then isn't that worth everything and then some? To seek with the whole heart is to find with the whole heart. To find with the whole heart is to be completed, lacking no good thing.

I want that!

I want that with all my heart!