Have you ever looked for something and just could not find it? Perhaps it was your keys or watch or some important paper. Sometimes you look in the same place over and over several times. The situation can become very frustrating.
When you finally find the item you were looking for, you breathe a breath of relief. You might say, “Yeah! Now I remember that I left it right here!” Frustration turns into happiness for finding what was lost.
Isaiah 55:6 says, “Seek you the Lord while He may be found, you call upon Him while He is near.” This bible verse commands everyone to seek the Lord. It is not that He is lost. God can never be lost. Those who do not know Him are the ones that are lost.
There is only one way to find God and that is through His Son Jesus Christ. John 14:6 Jesus says, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man (person) comes unto the father, but by Me.” Have you trusted Christ? He is the only way to God the Father.
It also states that you must seek Him while he may be found. When God makes Himself available you need to respond. Your part is to seek and call, God’s part
is to be found and be near. When presented with the need to be pardon by God two things are necessary.
Isaiah 55:6 conveys that if,
- You Seek and Call (Your part)
- God will be Found and Near (God’s part)
First you must recognize that He is available now. Not tomorrow or next month, but God is near right now (the present). Second, you must respond to God’s
opportunity. Responding to God’s work through Jesus Christ is completely up to you. Realizing that you are sinful.
The bible tells us that no one can come to Christ except the Father draws them (St. John 6:44). There may come a day when God may stop drawing people to
Himself. Then at the time the hope of salvation will be gone (Romans 1:28).
Are you taking chances? You must seek God while He can be found. “Now is the accepted time; behold now is the day of salvation” (2 Cor. 6:2). Now is always the time to respond to God. Like the landlord and the writer talking.
“Twenty years from now,” said a poor writer who was having trouble with his landlord, “people will come by and look at this house and say, ‘Phillips, the famous writer, had a room here.”
The landlord was unimpressed. “Phillips, I’m telling you that if you don’t pay your rent, they will be saying that the day after tomorrow!”
Don’t wait to long? Now is all you have, not tomorrow and not next year, but only now. Are you seeking God? If you are not 100% sure then you need to be sure. Don’t wait to late. God will find you because He knows all, but the question is will
you find Him?