Seek Ye First

2 Chronicles 15:2...and if you seek Him, He will let you find Him, but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you…. Isaiah 55:6 …seek the LORD while He may be found, call upon Him while He may be found, Call upon Him while He is near…Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him return to the LORD and He will have compassion on Him…1 Chronicles 22:19...now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God…Isaiah 65: 1 I permitted myself to be sought by those who did not ask for me…Proverbs 8:17 …I love those who love me, and those who diligently seek me will find me…Psalm 119:2 How blessed are those who observe His testimonies, who seeks Him with all their heart
Psalm 24: 6 This is the generation of those who seek Him…
When Elijah fled to Horeb in I Kings 19, he lamented that the children of Israel had forsaken the covenant and that He alone was left. He felt desperate and wished to die. King Solomon, Jeremiah, Job all in moments of desperation made statements that if they were read alone, out of context, could lead a person to believe all sorts of things … David wrote Psalm 14 in desperation, it seemed as if the whole world had turned against God. Paul quotes that verse to Jews who would have known the context of it, and who were in a rather “self-righteous” mood. Ecclesiastes 3:11 He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, without which man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning. Hebrews 11:6 for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who seek HIM. If there are verses in the Bible that seem to contradict, then we need to look deeper, for the connection, for the truth, and through the Holy Spirit we will find it. Through the Words I have read, the teachings I have heard, and the experiences of my life and the lives of others, I have come to the conclusion, that each person is born with a hunger, a longing for Spiritual Truth. That was put into their hearts by their creator, who is longing for every man, not just a few elect, but for every man to find the Way, the Truth and the Life…He calls to us all. He never stops calling. But the coming…the answering of the call, or rejecting it, is up to us.