A
reminder for today
"Keep
on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will
find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone
who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the
door will be opened. (Matthew 7:7-8)
Keep
on seeking, and you will find. I do not know why these words have been stuck
in my head all night, but what I do know is that I must remind you to not give
up and seek on a continuous level.
My dear friend, this is a promise God gave to us. Keep on
asking and you shall receive what you ask for and keep on seeking and you will
find. The door will open and you will find what you were seeking. Here is something
that I found that you might want to hear by Leah Blatt.
I've
learned that having a relationship with God is just like any other relationship
in the way that it takes a lot of effort and time. You can't just talk to God
and spend 15 minutes with Him once a month, or even once a week, and then
expect to get to know Him deeply. Just like if you want to have a deep
relationship with a new friend, you both have to want the relationship enough
to sacrifice a lot of time for it or it will never get deeper than the surface.
And God was obviously willing enough to not just sacrifice time to have a
relationship with you, but His life. But it takes two to make the relationship
worth anything. He already did everything possible to have the deepest
relationship with you that He could, and now He's just waiting for you to
respond.
But...
what if you aren't motivated at all to deepen your relationship with God? What
if you're just happy with life how it is and you'd rather not have quiet time
every day, or at all for that matter? In fact, what if you truly just wish God
didn't demand your time, much less your life, because you've been getting along
fine with having Him as just an addition to your life and you don't really want
to consider Him as anything more because He's just not that important to you.
And finally, what if when you are being completely honest with yourself you
know you really don't believe that you need Him to get you through the day.
Afterall, you feel like you've gotten this far without too much of His help in
the past, so why are you really going to need Him in the future, especially on
a daily basis? If that person sounds a lot like you, chances are you probably
don't realize how much you actually do need Him.
1st
of all, every breath you take depends on whether He wants you to take it or
not. And as a Christian the only reason you're still living on earth is to
glorify Him through your relationship with Him and bring as many other people
as you possibly can to know Him. That's your purpose in life, and calling
yourself a Christian means you're daily living that purpose. The only problem
is that so many Christians, including myself, get so distracted with the things
that the world has to offer that we forget our true purpose in life. And it's
not just things of the world that pull us away from God. A lot of the time it's
good things school, guys, friends, etc. that keep us from having a deeper
relationship with Him. And they can distract us for so long that we start to
think we need all of it to be satisfied, when really Satan's just using them as
tools to keep us from focusing on God. Because his only goal in life is to
distract us and keep us away from reaching ours.
So
basically, if God isn't your number 1 focus in life, then you are giving into
Satan's distractions. And until you make Him your number 1 focus and desire in
life, you're always going to feel empty at the end of the day because
everything the world and Satan have to offer are just substitutes for what God
will give you if you just seek Him first. Money can't satisfy you; friends
can't satisfy you; guys can't satisfy you; looking better can't satisfy you,
and anything else you can think of aside from God, because He made you so only
He could satisfy all of your needs. And going after anything else in the world
instead of God is just like eating candy instead of food all the time. You're
never going to be truly satisfied until you look to God instead of the world to
fill the emptiness in your soul.
Have and awesome day dear friend of Jesus
Cheers
