Seek With All Your Heart
“You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart." - Jeremiah 29:13
What Are Our True Motives?
Sometimes we can learn a lot by stressing certain words:
Unfortunately, there are many today that are not true seekers, honest seekers, but pre-decided seekers, self-serving seekers, half-hearted seekers, or head-only seekers.
God is not a theological concept; God is a being. And God, by definition, is the greatest being there is. Do I really want to know God or do I have some other motive/agenda in mind? If I have questions/objections, do I take it up with Him, or do I resource everything and everyone else instead of Him?
Seek Him With Your Heart
"Heart" is often just another word for our spirit. In some ways, our spirit is like a sensory organ - our eyes are for seeing images, our ears are for hearing sounds, and our spirit is for sensing God.
If we humble ourselves, and sit and wait and listen, God will speak to us:
"The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit." - 1 Corinthians 2:10-14
And when we speak to God (pray), the Spirit of God helps us:
"In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God." - Romans 8:26-27
What Are Our True Motives?
Sometimes we can learn a lot by stressing certain words:
- "SEEK Him with all your heart" - not pre-decide He doesn’t answer and then set out to prove ourselves right. SEEK (humble, teachable).
- "Seek HIM with all your heart" - not just information about Him, but Him. Not just what we want Him to do for us, and then reject Him because He doesn’t give us everything we want, or give it to us right now. Seek HIM.
- "Seek Him with ALL your heart" - not halfhearted and then say, "I tried religion", etc. Wholehearted, ALL your heart.
- "Seek Him with all your HEART" - not just with our head. He will also reveal Himself to our head in time. Our HEART first.
Unfortunately, there are many today that are not true seekers, honest seekers, but pre-decided seekers, self-serving seekers, half-hearted seekers, or head-only seekers.
God is not a theological concept; God is a being. And God, by definition, is the greatest being there is. Do I really want to know God or do I have some other motive/agenda in mind? If I have questions/objections, do I take it up with Him, or do I resource everything and everyone else instead of Him?
Seek Him With Your Heart
"Heart" is often just another word for our spirit. In some ways, our spirit is like a sensory organ - our eyes are for seeing images, our ears are for hearing sounds, and our spirit is for sensing God.
If we humble ourselves, and sit and wait and listen, God will speak to us:
"The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit." - 1 Corinthians 2:10-14
And when we speak to God (pray), the Spirit of God helps us:
"In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God." - Romans 8:26-27
