"You will seek Me and find Me when you seek Me with all your heart."
Isaiah 29:13
"These people come near to Me with their mouth and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me."
Matthew 6:33
"But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness"
-with all heart
- not just with lips
-and seek first
First does not mean early morning. First means it is very valuable, precious and important. Like a marriage ceremony. Imagine today is your wedding day. Even though there are a lot of other things to be done and said, your first thing is "I am going to be married today!" Then when the time for the marriage ceremony comes, it is understood that it demands and expects your whole heart involvement, not just lip service.
In the same way, Jesus offers us to seek Him. When we realize that He is our priority every day, then we anticipate to find Him and encounter Him with our whole heart.
"One thing I ask from the Lord,
this only do I seek:
that I may dwell in the house of the Lord
all the days of my life,
to gaze on the beauty of the lord
and to seek Him in His temple."
Psalm 27:4
"My heart says of You, "Seek His face!"
Your face, Lord, I will seek."
Psalm 27:8
One of my favorite verse in the Bible that moves my heart is from Proverbs 8:17,
"I love those who love Me, and those who seek Me find Me." I think about this verse in a way, like someone says, "Hey, do you know that you can find Someone, who existed before everything was created? You can find it! But here is the thing, only through LOVE!" So, allow your heart to love JESUS so passionately like never before, like no one else. Love Him with all your heart and go find Him, the One Who is before all things! Let your heart say, "Your face, Lord, I will seek!"
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