Seeking is important in the Bible

What is your favorite Easter candy?

Some will say Peeps or jelly beans, or better yet chocolate bunnies.

It was amazing to watch the kids at our church do an Easter Egg hunt. To see the focus and intensity of these children in their quest to get as many eggs as they could was amazing.

That is a great picture of what it means to seek for something.

Did you know that seeking is important in the Bible?

“And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.” (Jeremiah 29:13)

The goal of a person’s search is to find the relationship with the Lord. Obviously you get the relationship with Jesus Christ by trusting him as your Savior. Still, many Christians don’t ever grow in that relationship and sacrifice the treasure of finding the benefits of a relationship with Christ.

Like those children who were going all out for the eggs, a person has to be willing to make the relationship with Jesus Christ the highest priority or put “all your heart” into it.

Jesus said, “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.” (Matthew 13:45-46)

Jesus considered the Kingdom of God so important that it would be worth giving all to get it. If you are going to seek the Lord, you will have to believe and understand that the value is the highest priceless treasure in the world and eternity.

Next, if you are going to seek God you must build that on the Bible.

Anyone who is serious about seeking God will be serious about the Bible as it is through the book that you learn about God.

On top of the Bible, ask God to help you seek Him and make sure you are in a Bible preaching church.

The final good news is that if you will seariously seek God you will find him.

As a concluding note, Sunday after we got home I definitely enjoyed the fruit of the kids search in partaking of some of their candy they collected from the eggs (I think I called it inspection). Psalm 16:11 reminds us of the fruit that is enjoyed by this search for God. “Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.”

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