The search for God

The Word of God is full of mysteries that can only be revealed to those who seek God with all their heart. Seeking God means many things: God is also Truth, Righteousness, Peace, True Love, and when we are not converted, seeking these things is already seeking God. It is by seeking these things with all our heart that the Lord Jesus Christ will reveal himself to us. God Himself says that if we seek Him with all our heart we will find Him; and he who seeks these things is unconsciously seeking God (John 14:6) (Psalms 7:10-12) (1 John 4:8) (Romans 14:17) (Matthew 7:7) (Jeremiah 29:13) (Deuteronomy 4:29).

The (spiritual) encounter with God comes after a sincere search for righteousness and truth, and no one can meet Jesus Christ without this because the very revelation of His person is a mystery, that is, a hidden thing that can only be revealed to those who sincerely seek. If man could find God by his own intelligence he would have something to boast about, but in reality when God reveals himself to man it is simply because man listens to the voice of God that speaks to him in his heart and that pushes him to ask questions about his existence and to seek answers. So it is God who prepares our hearts to seek Him and when He reveals Himself to us afterwards, He becomes for us the obvious answer to all our questions. After meeting God in any way, our life becomes meaningful, and we want to get to know more about the one who has revealed himself to us and made us feel his Love for us.

From this moment on, we enter another phase of the search for God; we seek to know him more and to know his will so that we can please him. It is often at this stage that many give up; for many want deliverance, but also want to live as they see fit and not as God wants. When God begins to reveal His will to us, we are not always in agreement with it, and sometimes even if we are in agreement, our flesh is not (Romans 7:18-24). The written Word of God tells us about God's will as a mystery; and it teaches us that God does not reveal his will to everyone but only to those who seek to do his will (Ephesians 1:9) (Matthew 13:11) (Romans 12:2).

Many people seek to know and do God's will so that they can be pleasing to Him, but when God reveals part of His will to them they refuse to obey and no longer walk with God. But we know that walking with God is a walk of perseverance. God begins by revealing to us the things that are wrong in our lives, and with each revelation of his will we are like to stagnate until we have taken that step in obeying God. Then we will continue to seek Him and He will reveal His will to us again so that we can obey and please Him (2 Corinthians 3:17-18) (Colossians 1:9).

Seeking God is therefore a constant search so that we may know His perfect will for our lives and not only please Him, but also enter into the good works prepared beforehand by God so that we may do them and come to salvation (Psalm 105:4) (Amos 5:4). Even though we know that many are lost along the way and return to sin, we have the assurance that if we are sincere, if we want to please God, He will make us perfect according to His will and complete our perfection (Philippians 1:3-6). It has been given to some to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God and the Bible tells us that all the treasures are hidden in Christ who is himself the mystery of God, and when we are in Christ, walking by the Spirit, the Lord reveals his mysteries to us and shares with us his treasures which are the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. It is impossible for the mysteries of the Kingdom of God to be revealed apart from Christ since they are hidden in Christ (Mark 4:11) (Colossians 2:1-5). God reveals Himself by His Word and by His Spirit, and we must seek to know His will every day of our lives without ever believing that we have attained the goal of His perfect will; let him who thinks he is standing beware that he does not fall (Philippians 3:12) (1 Corinthians 10:12)

The search for God must be done in humility. We must come before God as children who know nothing and want to learn, not as men who think they know and refuse to be taught; otherwise we cannot please God and he will not reveal himself to us. God gives grace to the humble but resists the proud (James 4:6). He likes to remind us that we do not know much so that we do not become proud because of the knowledge; and if we could take what God has revealed to us, and put it in front of us on a wall, and set aside all the mysteries of the Kingdom of God, then we would realise that we know next to nothing; moreover the little that we do know we have received by grace and have no cause to boast (1 Corinthians 4:7).

God's perfect will for our lives is that we be conformed to the image of the man Jesus Christ who came to show us the perfect Example of a child of God; that we deny ourselves so that He can live in us. And the Lord reveals this to us little by little so that we are ready to truly understand it, not by our own understanding, for that is impossible, but by revelation (Romans 8:29) (2 Corinthians 3: 17-18) (Ephesians 5:1-2) (1 Thessalonians 4:3) (Matthew 5:48) (1 Peter 1:14-16) (1 Corinthians 11:1) (Ephesians 3:19) (Colossians 4:12) (1 Peter 4:1-2) (Ephesians 5:17) (Hebrews 10:35-36) (Hebrews 13:20-21) (1 John 2:17).
 
"Seek Yahweh while he is found, call upon him while he is near." (Isaiah 55:6)
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