That is the moment when we seek after God? That, in itself, is not so much a problem with me as the fact that God doesn’t give everyone a hunger for Himself—a desire to know Him precluding that conversion event.

I contend that we begin searching for God the moment we are born. We are born dissatisfied. We want. We need. We crave. We are selfish. Let’s just take a baby for instance. The moment it breaks out of the womb, they want comfort, they want protection–the warmth of their mother’s security. When they are being tossed to and fro, probed and prodded to assure they are healthy, they are squawling and demanding their needs be met. We wrap them up as snug as a bug in a rug and lay them at their mother’s breast so they can hear her heartbeat. They begin to search for food. Innately they search. Innately they need.

We are born innately in need. Dependent. Without a prayer’s chance to make it in life unassisted. We learn to depend on others–a mother, a father, a surrogate. But we are dependent nevertheless. This is God’s design. He doesn’t make us full-grown, independent creatures. As we grow we become more and more independent. We want things our way. Our needs and desires are first and foremost in our minds. No matter how well a child is raised, it always has a desire to please itself, gratify itself. We seek approval and recognition. We are self-centered beings without God.

And there comes a time in all our lives when what we do to satisfy our desires is like an unending thirst, a hunger unsatiated. No matter how much power, how much success, how many toys, how many people we have to assure us of our value and worth, there is a hole bigger than the Grand Canyon in our souls that simply cannot be filled. Unless a person heeds the call of God he or she most certainly hears and sees in life, he or she will continue on in life unsatisfied and without God. The problem exists not in the fact that they do not hunger after God, but they hunger amiss.

“The man or woman who does not know God demands an infinite satisfaction from other human beings which they cannot give, and in the case of the man, he becomes tyrannical and cruel. It springs from this one thing, the human heart must have satisfaction, but there is only one Being Who can satisfy the last abyss of the human heart, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ.” Oswald Chambers

Throughout our lives God in His sovereign grace, brings people, circumstances and things into our lives to introduce Himself to us. Even if no word were ever preached from a Bible, God is everpresently revealing Himself to us through nature, and all that we have that gives us life. No matter how difficult a life we lead, He is there in that life. No matter how blessed our life is, even if we do not acknowledge Him for our blessings, He is in that life. God is omnipresent. He is everywhere. We have no excuse for not seeking after Him. None.

All the while God is placing Himself before us and we, unknowingly, hunger after Him, but we try and satisfy our needs with the things of the world. And the prince of this world is only too happy to accomodate us. He is forever tempting the baseness of our nature with power, visual beauty, and self-gratifications. If there were no chance of all being saved in this world, then there would be no need for satan to play his games of deceit, trickery and accusations. His job is to draw all men away from God. To keep them condemned–living in the state in which they are born. His job is to deceive, manipulate and destroy. But we all have the same equipment from which to receive God.

“Ask and it will be given you, seek, and you will find; knock and it shall be opened unto you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.” Matthew 7:7,8.

When we seek, we find. Then it is ultimately up to us to continue on that journey in obedience to His Word, or sit like stuffed mannequins allowing the world to dress us in whatever cultural costume they pick out for the day.

God IS; He is the great I AM. I AM shows Himself to all and to all there is a call to repentance and faith in Him through obedience to His majesty and rule. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” John 1:1 And the Word lives among us, in His people and is calling all to Him through His Holy Spirit. May all who seek satisfaction in this life realize the Satisfaction they seek is Jesus Christ the Lord. selahV

[NOTE OF INTEREST: I will be away today in Oklahoma City so will not be able to respond to comments till late this evening. Sorry for any inconvenience that may cause. selahV]