Good
Morning All,
Psalm
105:4; “Seek the Lord
and his strength; seek his presence continually!”
Our two year old grandson likes to play hide and seek. He isn’t too bad at it. He usually hides pretty well except he
giggles all the time. One time, he
convinced his uncles to play with him.
They were all at our house. My
grandson went to look for a place to hide.
We have a small entryway on the one side of the house. There is a door to the outside, a door to a
closet, a door into my office and a door to the living room. He ran into this entry way to hide. He couldn’t open any of the doors to the
office, closet or outside. His one uncle
yelled, “here I come.”
Our grandson froze. He extended
each arm up against the closet door and tried to attach himself to the door in
an effort to hide. He stood as still as
he could. He tried to blend in with the
door and hide. It didn’t work but he
tried. He was hoping to hide but his
uncles found him anyway.
When we think of seeking something; we tend to think of things that are
hidden, like a grandson or a buried treasure.
Yet in the Bible, seeking means something a little different. When we read the word “seek” in the Bible, we
should think more of turning to or of asking counsel of. So in our verse, when it says to “seek the
Lord” it doesn’t mean to go looking for someone who is hidden; it means to turn
to God where he is and has always been, right next to you. We seek God where he is; in his Word and in
his sacrament. We seek God when we
engage in prayer to him.
This is what it means to “seek God.”
It is not some great quest or hunt; it is turning to God as our one and
only source of true peace. “Seeking God”
is asking for his guidance, for his Spirit, for his wisdom and for his peace. “Seeking God” is to trust in his faithful
promises and to rely on those promises continually. This is how we cope with life, by trusting in
God and his promises. Whether we are
facing surgery in the morning or the loss of a loved one or a painfully sad
change in our life, we are to “seek God” we are to turn to him in confident
prayer and read his wonderful words of hope and peace. We are to hear from God about his love for us
and the certain confidence that we have because of his love for us.
We can always take comfort in God’s Word. It gives us life and hope, nourishment and
comfort. In God’s gracious Word we have
peace. We can face each challenge with
the confidence that God is truly in our side.
Seek God; turn to him and trust in his promises to give you life and
hope, comfort and peace. Seek God; he
waits for you with all his mercy.
Father
of all goodness, in you we have all our hope.
Guide us by your Spirit that we may always seek you. Guide us to always trust in your Word and to trust
in your grace. Be with all the hurting
and the saddened people. Guide them to come
to you for peace and comfort. Use us to
help in guiding them that all may come to know the mercy that you bestow on
your children. Protect us we pray in the
precious name of Jesus. Amen
God’s Peace,
Pastor Bret
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