FAITH CAPSULE: With faith, it is possible to obey God’s word, seeking God diligently to please God.
Psalm 91
The standard to seek God is seeking God diligently.
Seek God diligently to please God but not seeking God by mouth.
To Seek God diligently 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.”
Seeking God diligently is taking a position to find God and have a place in Him and Him in one’s life. Deuteronomy 4:29 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, not deceiving yourself 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 word admonishes, “Listen to Me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek the Lord…”(Isaiah 51:1) The wickedness of this word demands to be wise by listening to the word of God and not follow the dictates of one’s heart.
Seeking God diligently 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.”
If seeking God to find God is not possible, God would not have asked for all to seek Him diligently, to find Him by following Him. One that follows God is not possible to walk in darkness as declared by God’s word in John 8:12, “He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness but have the light of life.”
God is true, seek Him diligently to find Him.
David is an example that 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) Are you with the desire to seek God diligently, following His righteousness in His word?
Obeying God’s word is seeking diligently to keep self in God as His treasure. Exodus 19:5 confirms, “Now, therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.”
With faith, it is possible to obey God’s word, seeking God diligently to please God.
Prayer for today: Ask from God to enable you to be seeking Him diligently.