Freedom is Good News Part 133

Have you ever noticed that we human beings seem to “seek the LORD” only when we are in trouble?  “O, LORD if you will only get me out of this jam, I will do thus and such…….”  You fill in the blank!  Somehow we seem to think that God is some kind of a deal maker.  “I’ll do something for you God, if you will do this for me.” 

Allow me to share with you that this is not how God, who created the universe by His spoken word, works!  Sometimes we think that we are mighty big and mighty important people, but even King David (who was a man after God’s own heart) said, “I am but a worm and not a man….” (Psalm 22:6)  No one knew God better than David.  A cursory reading of the words of David, in the psalms, will bear this out.  David humbly served God.  And David loved God.

In Isaiah 40:6 we read, “A voice says, ‘cry out.’  And I said, ‘What shall I cry?’”  And this is the answer that comes to Isaiah, “All men are like grass and all their glory is like the flowers of the field.  The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of the LORD blows on them.  Surely the people are grass.  The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”

If one would care to understand just how big God is and how small we are, this chapter 40 of Isaiah should hit the mark.  Verse 14: “Whom did the LORD consult to enlighten Him, and who taught Him the right way?  Who was it that taught Him knowledge or showed Him the path of understanding?”  Verse 22: “He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in……..to whom will you compare me?  Or who is my equal?  Lift your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these?  He it is who brings out the starry host one by one, and calls them each by name.  Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.”  Yeah, God is an awesome God!!

So let’s get back to our original thought, and ask the question; how and when should we seek this awesome God?  Might I suggest that if we sought Him when things were good in our lives, then things might not have to turn sour.  Isaiah addresses this idea in chapter 55:6, “Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.  Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts.  Let him turn to the LORD, and He will have mercy on him, for my thoughts are not your thoughts neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD.”

So that’s the when we should seek Him; and as for the how?  James tells us in chapter 4:6, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”  As was said before in this article:  David, a man after God’s own heart sought the LORD with great humility. 

When all is well, let us seek God’s face.  Let us humbly bow before Him and give Him honor and praise and glory; His grace will be ours – for He is God and we are the sheep of His pasture.