In Search of God

Perhaps more than ever before, Christians struggle in their attempt to draw near to God. It seems that God is elusive and mysterious. However, God is not hiding from us...we are the ones who are in hiding. In fact, Jeremiah reminds us in Jeremiah 29:13 that God tells us just how we can find Him: "And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart." The reason that God appears absent from our lives so often is that it is not truly our heart's desire to find Him. We have cluttered our lives with a myriad of gods and idols that are more precious to our heart than God. Instead of seeking Him, we chase after the allurements of the world and find ourselves running in circles attempting to grasp the wind. Our lives are empty and discontentment rules the day. In our frustration with the life that we have created we maintain that God does not care, when in realtiy we are the ones who have created the vacuum that exists between us and God. We bury ourselves in the "toys" of life and make ourselves out to be god, living merely to satisfy our every whim. We must recall the words of James in James 4:8 "Come close to God and He will come close to you. Wash your hands you sinners; and purify your hearts you double-minded." When God becomes our supreme object of desire...when He becomes the object of our obsessive search....then we will find Him.