Seek the LORD while he may be found - Isaiah 55:6

Seek the LORD while he may be found;

call on him while he is near

 

Our faithful prophet Isaiah had had many years of calling mankind to return to his sovereign God, the One who made a people for His own, the One who would have mercy upon His own and would have an everlasting love for His people.  But for many years those same people worshipped other gods, and sought to live independent and separate from their Maker. Later in Chapter 64, he talks about the clay and the potter and that "we are the work" of His hand.   I think we see in our verse for today that the time to receive this "indescribable gift" (2 Cor. 9:15) is not forever.  The clay becomes hard and unworkable after a while; we lose our sensitivity to spiritual things. 

 

The word "seek" is used other places (Deu. 12:5, Ps. 9:10, 105:4) to describe going to worship in the temple...but these were exiles and had no temple, so this was to seek God Himself and his way of life.  These people were complainers and grumblers...Isaiah wanted them to see the blessing that would come if they would repent and yield.  God wants a grateful and obedient following...He doesn't want resentful and grumpy people.  The choice is ours.  One day He will say to us: "is that your final answer?".

 

What are you seeking after today?  A thrill, a release from pressure, a bigger house, another pair of shoes...or the things of God?  This same Chap. 55 talks about God's thoughts not being our thoughts or His ways our ways.  In order to "think with the mind of Christ" (Phil. 2:5) we must receive this greatest of all gifts He offers us...today!  Our salvation is a gift from God...we have been given a choice to receive this gift or to reject it.  We say "no thank you" when we live according to the world's standards and not Biblical ones; we say "no thank you" when we harden our hearts to the people He has put in our lives; we say "no thank you" when we are sexually impure or idolize the things of this world.  We say "no thank you" when we do not receive the gift of Jesus Christ as our personal Savior.  It is only His indwelling Spirit that does that incredible work in us that we cannot do ourselves.

 

I don't want to be like the people in Romans 1 who God finally gave over to their own lusts...they "exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshipped and served created things rather than the Creator".    The time ran out for them...I will choose TODAY to trust Him, to call on Him and to the best of my ability to discern and do exactly what He calls me to do.   How about you?

 

For further study:  Deu. 4:29-31, Psalm 66:18, Proverbs 27:1, Isaiah 29:16, Hosea 10;12, 2 Cor. 9:15, Ephesians 2:8-9, Hebrews 3:7-16, James 4:8, 1 Peter 4:17

 

Be blessed in your understanding of God's word.

 

Love,

Holly