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God Is Seeking You

Again, God loves you so much that He created you on purpose and for a purpose! No one is a mistake, and no one is so lost that he can’t be found. God created us to seek Him (Acts 17:27), and most remarkable of all is that God is seeking you! The Creator of this world says in Ezekiel 34:16, “I will search for my lost ones who strayed away, and I will bring them safely home again. I will bandage the injured and strengthen the weak” (NLT). His Son, Jesus, says, “The Son of Man came to seek and save those who are lost” (Luke 19:10 NIV). But what is “lost”?

In 2005, NFL quarterback Tom Brady sat down for an interview with 60 Minutes. At that time, he had led the New England Patriots to a Super Bowl win three times (he went on to earn four more Super Bowl victories: three additional wins for the Patriots, and one for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers). In the interview, he said, “Why do I have three Super Bowl rings and still think there’s something greater out there for me?… I think, God, there’s got to be something more than this…What else is there for me?”

Reporter Steve Kroft asked, “What’s the answer?” Brady replied, “I wish I knew. I wish I knew.”*

That’s a perfect definition of lost. Like Tom Brady, you may think there’s got to be something more than this, and you keep searching, diligently trying to find what you’re looking for. There’s a lostness we all experience—it’s that place in our hearts where God has set eternity (Ecclesiastes 3:11), and in our search for that “something more,” we fill up that hole in our heart with everything that’s behind the brothel door.

Remember the young man who knocked on the brothel door? He was lost, searching for something to fill the eternity-shaped hole in him. He was searching for love, not knowing God alone can give the love that would fulfill him. Jesus came to Earth to make God’s love known to those who are lost—those who don’t have a relationship with Him.

You may be busy knocking on doors, but God Himself is knocking on yours. Charles Spurgeon (1834–1892) said that God knocks on your door for your

immediate and endless happiness…Do not, therefore, act as if you were not at home: do not turn a deaf ear, or a careless heart. I am asking nothing of you in the name of God or man. It is not my intent to make any requirement at your hands; but I come in God’s name, to bring you a free gift, which it shall be to your present and eternal joy to receive. Open the door, and let my pleadings enter.**

As you read, remember Spurgeon’s plea, and don’t act as if you are not at home.

Tomorrow, we’ll explore what it looks like to open the door to receive God’s love.

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References

*“Tom Brady on winning: There’s ‘got to be more than this,’ ” 60 Minutes, accessed on YouTube.
**Charles Spurgeon, All of Grace (Nashville, TN: B&H Publishing, 2017), 6.