A Seeker of God, part 1

I’ve often heard people describe themselves as a “seeker of God.” I’m fairly certain, I’ve applied that title to myself as well, but as I look back over the years, I see that I was much more a seeker of the things of God and the things He could provide me with than I was a true seeker of God. So this week, we’ll be looking at what it is to be a “Seeker of God.” Let’s look to the Scripture and see what we can discover together this week.
 

Hebrews 11:6 “And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.” 

If a person was seeking God, what should they expect to get? God! Correct? It seems, though, that very few people actually seek God. From my perspective (as a people watcher and one who desires more of God in my own life), it is my observation that most people seek things from God, but not really God Himself. 
 

I often teach on prayer and developing a prayer life – but I am much more interested in developing a hunger in people’s hearts for God than I am just to get people to pray more. Prayer should be the natural result of wanting God. If I were to simply challenge people to pray more, but not actually helping them develop a hunger for the Lord, then prayer would simply be a religious activity that would not accomplish much in their lives. 

It must break the heart of God, as He watches those who profess to love Him, seek things from Him rather than Him. We seem to be much more taken up with things from God than we are God Himself. We are quick to seek good health, wealth, and blessings - but slow to actually have a pursuit of God.

It would appear that only a remnant of God’s people seek Him. Do you ever just look for God? In your prayers, do you ever simply want more of God, or are your prayers filled with all types of petitions and supplications? I believe God is waiting to reveal Himself to each of us, but He’s finding very few that actually want to seek Him. 
 

Let me show you what typically happens (which helps to explain why we start off initially being excited about Jesus when we are born again but end up without much of a pursuit of Him). Genesis 8:13-20 “By the first day of the first month of Noah’s six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. 14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry. 15 Then God said to Noah, 16 “Come out of the ark… 18 So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives… 20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it.” 
 

The first thing Noah did when the ark landed was to build an altar. The altar represents the prayer life. Prayer is our place of offering today. We offer ourselves to God through prayer. The flood and the new earth are a type of the salvation experience. The old life/world has been washed clean. Everything is fresh and exciting. 

You enter this world through prayer (altar). When you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus Christ and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved (Romans 10:9-10). 

Continued tomorrow