Seek

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"Ask and it will be given to you;

seek and you will find;

knock and the door will be opened to you."

-Matthew 7:7

What could possibly be of more worth than seeking God? Seeking where you came from, where you are going, and why and what you are doing on the way? How could anything be more important than that? Those who seek will find.

What is it though that you are actually seeking? The thing you actually seek you will find, so if you seek God but really seek yourself, that is what you will find. If you seek God but really seek a church, you will find a church. If you seek God but really seek a religion, you will find a religion. If you seek God but really seek your own ego, that is what you will find. If you seek God but really seek to control others, you won't get God but something else. We must shake off all worldliness to seek God purely, otherwise we are not really seeking Him.

Be not misled. The love of God must be an all consuming fire, or it is not at all. It cannot come second place to anything else. You must be willing to sacrifice all else but that. Before that, the desire for wealth, for security, for the good opinion of others, for pleasure, indeed the world itself and your own life must be seen as mere kindling for this fire. You see the goodness and holiness of God and want only that. You are single-minded, single-sighted, single-hearted.

At a certain point, you are seeking God so sincerely that you become aware that He seeks you back. He grabs you with talons of steel and won't let you go. If you stumble, you will be so horrified that you will do anything rather than sin again, and so you will be lifted ever upwards. God wants to lift us from our condition, He just requires that we desire it enough. He needs for us to understand that only this matters.

ONLY this matters. Let that sink in for a minute.

Who am I? In this world, I am nobody. What do I own? In this world, I own nothing. What is my position, what is my status, what is my title, my occupation, what flag do I fly, what are my politics? I don't have any. Who is my master? God. What is my home? The Kingdom of Heaven. What am I? God's child.