FAITH CAPSULE: The standard of seeking God is to seek God diligently.
Isaiah 51
To find God is to seek God diligently.
The standard of seeking God is to seek God diligently to please God but not seek God by mouth.
To please God is rooted in faith.
Hebrews 11:6 buttresses, “But without faith, it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.”
To seek God diligently is taking a position to find God and have a place in Him.
One that finds God will have God in such.
To seek God diligently is identified in Deuteronomy 4:29, which records, “But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
Will you seek God diligently?
In this wicked world, for your benefit, do not be deceived, seek God diligently dwell, and abide in God. Psalm 91:1-3 encourages, “He who dwells in the secret place of the Highest Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust.” Surely, He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the perilous pestilence.”
Seeking God diligently to find God is serving God.
Serving God is living life for God being righteous as the word admonishes, “Listen to Me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek the Lord…”(Isaiah 51:1)
The wickedness of this word demands becoming wise by listening to the word of God.
Listening to God will not follow the dictates of the heart.
Listening to God will be awake with strength.
Righteousness is listening to God and seeking God diligently to find God.
Seek God diligently which is serving God with no hidden agenda before God.
John 12:26 identifies what it means to serve God, “If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor.”
In serving God there is a need to seek God diligently.
One that follows God can not possibly walk in darkness as declared by the word of God in John 8:12, “He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness but have the light of life.”
God is true.
Live to seek Him diligently to find Him.
David is an example of one who followed God with his heart and the Bible records, “…My servant David, who kept My commandments and who followed Me with all his heart, to do only what was right in My eyes.” (1 Kings 14:8)
With the desire to seek God diligently, follow His righteousness in His word.
Have faith, to possibly obey the word of God, seeking God diligently to please God.
Prayer for today: Ask that you be able to seek God diligently.