The Seeker

Ps 119:10 With my whole heart I seek you, let me not wander from your commandments.

I Chronicles 28:9 If you seek Him, He will be found by you.

I was lost. And Jesus found me. A teenager. Going in the wrong direction. Jesus sought me out and rescued me from a life of sin. I was standing in church during an altar call one night during revival and feeling what I didn't know at the time was conviction. My dear Sunday School teacher asked me if I wanted to go to the altar and become a Christian but due to unclear teaching I told her I already was a Christian.

 

But that night in bed, the Lord wouldn't allow me to sleep. He kept urging me to come to Him. So I said Yes! And He changed me. Into a new person. (II Corinthians 5:17 – Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold the new has come.) And the next morning as I awoke, I knew I was different. I had found Someone to fill the void that that lost 16 year old teenager was feeling. It was Jesus.

It has been a journey every since. There have been many ups and downs, peaks and valleys. But He has always been beside me and living within me. (John 14:23)

As I look back through the years and glance at my older journals, I have always been a seeker. I have a heart that wants more of God. We can never get to a place where we have “arrived”. Until we get to heaven that is. So it is interesting to read older journal posts and see things I have been struggling with and how I am praying and searching for more truth and understanding. There is also the joy of seeing how God has answered prayers and how He has helped me through the ensuing years between journal posts. He was there in the quiet months and maybe years when I wasn't writing in a journal.

 

I recently said, “One is never too old to be a seeker.” Whether you have walked with the Lord for many years or you don't know Jesus yet, now is the time to seek Him. Isaiah 55:6, “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.”

As I approach retirement, it isn't a time to sit back and rely on past blessings. I need and want a fresh relationship with God everyday. In upcoming blogs, I will share some great truths about God with us. See you then!