"Seeking God"

The ability to understand or perceive spiritual truth is something that only God can impart!

“The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.”1st Corinthians 2:14

The writer of proverbs Solomon, the wisest person of his day, helps us to understand that within each of us there must be a desire for God!

Do you desire to know God? Would you describe your desire as a passion?

*There is a tale told of that great English actor Macready. An eminent preacher once said to him: "I wish you would explain to me something." "Well, what is it? I don’t know that I can explain anything to a preacher."

"What is the reason for the difference between you and me? You are appearing before crowds night after night with fiction, and the crowds come wherever you go. I am preaching the essential and unchangeable truth, and

I am not getting any crowd at all."

Macready’s answer was this: "This is quite simple. I can tell you the difference between us. I present my fiction as though it were truth; you present your truth as though it were fiction." G. Campbell Morgan, Preaching, p. 36.

“My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you, turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding, and if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding.

There must be an impassioned yearning, a focused desire to know God! Were to accept His word assuredly. With acceptance there will come insight and you will discover that God has much to say to you, lessons to be learned insights to be acquired!

It is said that when the famous missionary, Dr. David Livingstone, started his trek across Africa he had 73 books in 3 packs, weighing 180 pounds. After the party had gone 300 miles, Livingstone was obliged to throw away some of the books because of the fatigue of those carrying his baggage. As he continued on his journey his library grew less and less, until he had but one book left--his Bible. Today in the Word, April 1989, p. 28.

I am not so sure that most of us would pack, or unpack in the same way!

God can be known. Your quest has a reality, but your discovery is only the beginning! I am speaking to someone today, and your faith is old. It has nothing to do with how many candles you blow out on your cake these days by the way! But old in the sense of tried, attempted…you have made the effort but now you’re fatigued spent weary.

Spiritual apathy can become the malady of the Pastor just as easily as the plumber! It can weaken the staunchest Christian heart, whether that heart beats inside the chest of someone 18 or 80!

Solomon stands at this juncture in our journey to seek God to remind us that acceptance while crucial must be followed by a real hunger for insight.

Perhaps my favorite story of my favorite preacher from a bygone error will explain what I believe our writer is saying to us today.

*Dr George Truett (Pastor of First Baptist Dallas from 1897-1944) was at his Doctor’s for a medical exam. He said: (Paraphrasing) “People say that I am a brilliant man, this is not so, I must study hard and long, to feed my people”