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                                                         He seeks for us !
Man was created to love... by a God who is the perfect love.
All men are seekers. All mankind are looking to fill the void in there hearts with something!

        But we are now in a state of rebellion, cut off from the prefect love.
    'Has God said?' was the lie that Satan presented before our first parents.
    They fell for the lie, and the result was the ruin of the relationship that man had with God. Sin and death entered into the world, and all creation now groans under there presence.
        Man is now left with a heart designed to love God, but is lost and seeking for that which he cannot find and possess of his own strength and will. Before God, we are found dead in trespasses and sins, and dead to the things of a Holy and Righteous God.

        When Jesus said 'seek you first the kingdom of God..."  the direct inference is... to put your seeking priorities in order. Seek the Kingdom of God first... this is what a man is do if he is to find God.

        But there is a tension found in the scriptures. There is the commandment to seek, but at the same time how is a dead man going to seek after God?
        Listen to the clear declaration from God himself...

    ‘The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that does good, no, not one.’   Psalm 14:3

        If man is indeed dead in sin and trespasses as the scripture declares, then how is it that he can seek for God? How can a dead man do anything?
    Do the dead eat?  This tension is shown again by what Jesus says... ‘you must eat of me, if you are to live and have any part in me’*
        Didn't Jesus say that he was the bread from heaven?  (John 6:35,41)
        But how is a man going to eat unless he is alive? Good question!?

    You must be born again!?

    You and I certainly had no say in our conception and birth into this world.
    It's ridiculous to even consider the thought of our having any power or say in our creation and physical presence upon this earth. And yet men will disagree and argue over the part they have in the birth into the family of God.  Decisionism is the theology of the new birth today in many of our churches.

    But one thing is absolutely certain... it is God who makes us alive, and as clearly as God made Adam a living soul, so it is that God quickens the dead spirits of those whom he brings into His family. This is the New birth that Jesus speaks of when he confronted the proud Jew Nicodemus.

    Our Major Consideration:

         Scripture is clear on what God says about man seeking after himself… It is God who seeks us. Dead men (women) don't seek the things of God, therefore God must bring them to a state of life. Once we are alive it is then that we feed upon Christ that bread from heaven and grow in the knowledge and grace of Him of whom we have to do. It is then that our desire and our seeking turns to the one who made it possible.

    "When you said, Seek you my face; my heart said to you, Thy face, LORD, will I seek."  Psa. 27:8

    God is the initiator and the finisher of the faith that leads us back to Him, which is Salvation.  Jesus made it clear what His mission was…
    "For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost"  Luke 19:10

       He still continues do so this day... notice that it does not say "he came" and is now gone and finished, but... "is come..". There is the continuos coming of his purpose. Yes, we know as his people, that He is risen and sits at the right hand of God where he is our intercessor. But that purpose of His seeking and saving has been taken up by His very Spirit which He has left in this world to this present time. It is the spirit of God that blows where ever it wills and falls upon the man of God's choosing.

        This does not deny the reality that man is born a natural seeker. We all seek something because this is the way God has made each of us. It's part of that difference which separates man from the rest of the animal kingdom.
        But because of sin and the separation that it has caused between God and man, our natural seeking only leads us away from the truth.
    "There is a way which seems right to a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death."
        And men have found many ways to follow throughout human history.
    And so it is, because the natural man will always do that which seems right for himself. The natural man will always go the way which leads away from God. He cannot help himself, just as a pig cannot control his love and desire to wallow in the mud. It is simply a matter of nature.

        Does this relieve us from being responsible to our creator?  The call from God is...
    "Enter you in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many there be which go in that way."

    Jesus says, ‘seek you first the kingdom of God and His righteousness…’.

        Man is both responsible and accountable... and within this tension,
    that of a nature which leads us away from God, which hates God...
    and at the same time our responsibility and accountability before God...
    we have the promise found in Ezekiel who writes 600 years before Christ...

    ‘For thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out. As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.’ Ezek. 34:11,12

     With the promise of that deliverance fulfilled in God's Christ...
    "Who has delivered us from the power of darkness, and has translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:" Col 1:13

    We are now given assurance through God's New Covenant to His people.
    First laid out long ago by the phrophets...

    Jer 32:39,40  "And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:
    And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me."

    Ezek 36:26,27  "A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my judgments, and do them."

    ...And being understood by the New Testament writers that those promises of God have been fulfilled, they declare... "But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:" 1 pet 2:9 

    It is a matter of Faith... do you believe. What will you do?

         Thanks be to God who has sent the great shepherd of the sheep to be their saviour and has delivered them from the darkness and brought them into the kingdom of his Dear Son.