Seek and Ye Shall Find

As a young person, I know what it feels like to have to drag yourself out of bed every morning for school. And it's even more harder to discipline myself to get up EARLIER so I can have time to read my Bible. I would like to say I have been consistent with that, but I cannot. It seems there is always an excuse to get up, eat breakfast, brush the teeth and start school. Without stopping to read the Bible.

In the Bible, especially in the Psalms, it stresses the point to rise EARLY. As for me, I know that after the evening has wound down, I have too many things to try to fit in before it's time for bed. So I put off reading it then too. If you haven't noticed, I am writing this for me, as well as others. I notice in my own life, that, the longer I put off reading the Bible, the day becomes worse. It seems nothing goes right.

David, a man after God's own heart, knew the importance of getting a hold of God EARLY, before the day had really started, before there were distractions, and before the devil could tempt him to do anything contrary to God's will. "O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;" (Ps. 63:1) "Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early." (Ps 108:2) And in Proverbs, it states: " I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me" (Prov. 8:17)

To seek the Lord early is important, I think, and seeking Him with everything you have. The Bible says, "And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart." (Jer. 29:13) There have been many times I have lost some thing, and I would get up very early to look for it, and I wouldn't stop until I found it. Usually, I will enlist my family to help look for it, and we would look together.

If you were to lose your boyfriend, or girlfriends class ring, if you've exchanged it, you would want to find that as soon as you could. Why? Because that is something of value, of importance. The same thing if you lost one of your school books, and you had a test to study for. You would want to find it, so you could study and do well on your test. And if you lost something of that great importance, would you be saying, " Oh well, I'll look for it when I get the chance"? No, you would be searching the entire house frantically until you found it. Just like the shepherd, who left the ninety and nine in the fold, and went out to search for the ONE that was lost, and like the woman who swept the whole house to look for that ONE coin.

If we have lost God's will in our life, if we have lost that fellowship with Him, we should search for Him, just as the woman and shepherd searched for the things they lost...with our whole hearts. "But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul." (Deut. 4:29) But the Bible states there is also a time limit to find God. In Isaiah, the prophet says, "Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:" (Isa. 55:6)
So, as I close out this entry, I encourage you, to seek the Lord with your whole heart. It doesn't matter what people are saying about you, or what they are doing. Just stay strong in what YOU know is right, and don't compromise, no matter what.

Eph 6:10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.