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If only I knew where to find him

Have you every travel on a road that never got you to where you wanted to go? Each road took you to one dead end after another until you were ready to take your car and send it over a cliff. You’d cried and begged what am I doing wrong Lord? I’ve gone over and over the directions but still I am lost. What’s the next step?

This is a vivid picture of your struggle when you are desperately lost and can’t find your way home.

I have been studying Isaiah 55:8-9:
8“My thoughts are not your thoughts, and my ways are not your way,” declares the Lord.
9“Just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways, and my thoughts are higher than your thoughts.”

What we think should be happening is different from what the Lord wants to have happen in our life. You can wrestle with Him over each direction in your life or just give in to His prompting.

In my life right now I long to know God and I long to find Him. I am in perpetual state of lost when I can’t find the Lord.

King David cried out to the Lord in his state of lost in Psalms. In Psalm 63:1:
O God, you are my God. At dawn I search for you. My soul thirsts for you.
My body longs for you in a dry, parched land where there is no water.

Job cries from his very soul in Job 23:3:
If only I knew where to find him; if only I could go to his dwelling.

In Proverbs 8:17 wisdom tells us:
I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me.

Jeremiah 29:13 says of the captives of sin:
You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

What do these verses have in common this personal longing to know God alone? David and Job are not thinking of their wants of this world but in a relationship with God. David and Job are seeking with all their heart to know God in an intimate union. They are both looking to God for their deliverance instead of themselves. God came through for David and Job.

Every time I read the scriptures, go to church, and drive in my car I want desperately to meet Him there. My soul longs for His presence like nothing I have ever experience before and I cry out to Him with new eyes and a new heart. I want to see the God that David and Job saw.

Lord you have taken away my job, possessions, gifts, self-worth, and I am laid bare. I came into the world bare and I will die bare. I know I am a sinful creature but what do you want of me? I do not know why I keep losing my way? Have mercy on me dear Lord. I have nothing but you Lord who stands in judgment over my still body. My cry is “Oh, that I knew where I might find him!”

Who are you looking to deliver you?Are we looking to you to be in control of your fate? Life has been good and I do not cheat, lie, murder or steal. I am a good person, go to church, tithe to my church, and I volunteer to the soup kitchen every week. I plan on going to heaven because I am good.

What you are saying is that you’re self-righteous and perfect. The Lord can’t help you then because He came to seek and save the lost.

God sent his son Jesus Christ who was sinless to be sin for the lost. For people who see their sin and desperately need to be wash cleaned. Jesus was tortured, shamed, and crucified for a sinful people who can’t save themselves. They cry on bended knee or sitting as Job did “If only I knew where to find him.”

The scriptures say I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me. This is a promise to you that Jesus loves you who love Him. Scriptures also say that when you search with all your heart you will find Him.

The desire to cry “If only I knew where to find him” comes from the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit draws you to God if you are listening. Are you caught up in the world of media, money, materialistic goods, or just living on your turns you might not hear the voice of the Holy Spirit.

Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts. In the Prodigal son story the son was coming home and the Father saw his son and ran to meet him. Jesus Christ is running to meet you so listen to the Holy Spirit and call? “If only I knew where to find him.”

You want to find God? Then read his word and find what He says about you through His scriptures. Go to church and hear is word spoken out loud and meet others who will testify to knowing God. But if you run from Him there is a scripture for that too.

Psalm 139:7- 8
7 Where can I go to get away from your Spirit? Where can I run to get away from you?
8 If I go up to heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in hell, you are there.

There is no where you can go to hide from His love for you. The Lord is near He is waiting for you to just turn around to Him. Jesus Christ arms are open wide so seek with all your heart and embrace your forgiveness. His grace is efficient for you. His blood was shred on the cross for you.

I pray that you will believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, repent and ask forgiveness for your sins; that, you will be forgiven, comforted, and refreshed from the thirst of His love. In Jesus Christ Name I pray.

Awake you who slumber. For God is seeking you.

“The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. From one man (Adam) he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.  Acts 17:24-27 

(Jesus said) Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? Matthew 6:26-27 

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” Matthew 11:28-30

I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me. Proverbs 8:17 

May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit (the Trinity) be with you all.  2 Corinthians 13:14 

AMEN!!!

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Blessed are those who find wisdom, those who gain understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her.  Proverbs 3:13-15 

For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.  Proverbs 2:6

If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.  James 1:5 

I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me.  Proverbs 8:17 

For those who find me find life and receive favor from the LORD.  Proverbs 8:35

And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.  Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.  1 John 5:11-12

Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book. But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life (eternal life) in his name.  John 20:30-31 

AMEN!!!

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The Love of Jesus

Lamentations 3:22-23 … Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassion never fail.  They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

Psalm 25:4-6 … Show me your ways, O LORD, teach me your paths; guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.  Remember, O LORD, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old.

Psalm 33:16-18 … No king is saved by the size of his army; no warrior escapes by his great strength.  A horse is a vain hope for deliverance; despite all its great strength it cannot save. But the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear him, on those whose hope is in his unfailing love,

Proverbs 8:17 … I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me.

John 3:16-17 … ”For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.  For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

Titus 3:4-8a  … But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy.  He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life.  This is a trustworthy saying.

Ephesians 2:4-9  … But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.  And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.  For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.

Romans 5:3-8 … Not only so, but we  also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.  You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.  Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die.  But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 8:38-39  … For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 John 4:7-9 … Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God.  Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.  Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.  This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8a  … Love (God) is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.  It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.  Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.

Colossians 3:13-15 … Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another.  Forgive as the Lord forgave you.  And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.  Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace.  And be thankful.

Ephesians 5:1-2 … Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

1 Peter 1:8-9 … Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

1 Peter 4:8 … Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

Ephesians 3:16-21 … I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.  And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.  Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever!  Amen!!!

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