Finding.... God
This Message
in the Dutch language: God laat zich vinden
Many ask in these
days the interesting question: "Where
is God?"
And the next question is usually: "How
can I find Him?" Somebody, a learned man, made the interesting
statement that 'God
is not far from us,'
(Acts
17:27). About the meaning of this statement many interesting books have
been written. When we think in terms of space and the universe we
suggest that God may be dwelling somewhere beyond the stars and that is
a long distance from us on this planet.
There are
now scientists that are sure that there are other universes than that
one in which we live, that are of a kind of energystructure that we
cannot observe. But we live in a highly
compacted, complicated and compressed structure of energies.
The universe with whatever could possibly exist outside of it can be
considered as one gigantic system. If we include in this
super-universal view heaven and earth, our planet, then we could try to
imagine heaven and earth as close together. Please notice now that what
the apostle
Paul said in his speech tot the Greek philosophers of his days in
Acts 17:28: "For in Him we live and
move and have our being," fits perfectly well in the
modern theories about the universe.
In the light of what we think to know
through science about the universe, energies and
matter, it becomes an interesting and exciting challenge and search to
try to find God and learn to know Him. That's why more and more people
are asking: "God, I want to find you and learn to know you."
Personally
I believe that finding God is to find the deepest reason for- and
meaning of my life. If you find God you make the greatest discovery a
man can possibly make. The good news of the Bible and especially of the
Gospel is that everyone can find God. God does not play hide-and-seek-
is far too serious in this matter. He allows Himself to be found
through everyone
who seeks Him. That's why the prophet Isaiah wrote in chapter 55:6 of
his book: "Seek the LORD
while He may be found, cal upon Him while he is near."
As a human being
Jesus Christ began also with the search for God because he was emptied
of his divinity
and had become completely man as all of us are. But because He had a
sinless, perfectly on God orientated heart. He undoubtedly found God
already very early in His childhood as the great spiritual
reality of his live (Philippians 2:6,7; Hebrews 4:15). He too
had to walk as a human being the walk of faith in experiencing and
maintaining the relationship with God as His Father, that's why He
prayed evidently so much and intimate. He knew in a
perfect way to the heart of the Father in heaven and learned to
know Him better than any other man. It is truly wonderful that he
became for all men the way to the Father. Hear Him say in John
14:6: "I am
the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father,
but by me."
It is possible
that you lost contact with God somewhere on life's troublesome journey.
The business in your life, your concentration
on
so many things that belong to your life and - be honest - the possible
laziness to give your true attention to maintaining the contact with
God, have had as a result that you lost the contact with God. But now
your
heart is calling for contact with the living God. You have tried to
silence that cry but now it is coming with great power from the depth
of your being. It is high time for you then to obey this cry and take
time
to give all your attention to the most important issue of your life,
finding God.
The Bible gives the promise that if you search for God with all your
heart, you will surely find Him; please read Isaiah 55: 1-3 and Joel
2:12,13. I urge you to concentrate on the most important search of your
life: Finding God and knowing His
unconditional, forgiving love through
Jesus Christ, His Son. When you find God through and in
Jesus Christ you will discover that you are going to participate in
the highest dimension of existence: eternal life
with God.
T. J. de Ruiter, July 2009
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