HE WILL BE FOUND

Someone from our new church gave us a cross with the words "For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29 Now most of us have read these words many times before, but the other day I was reading this again in my personal study, but I loved what it says after. "Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. 'I will be found,' declares the Lord."

The words I underlined came alive to me as I read them. It is so easy to come to God with our quick prayer - you know what I mean. "Dear God, help me to do good at work today, be with my children and take care of my finances...etc." You know how it can be, we've all been there. But these words in Jeremiah speak to this deep relationship that he wants to have with us. God simply telling us to talk with him, share with him, with all our heart. He wants us to just bear our heart to him, deep, all the way down, holding nothing back. And the promise is that he will be found. Know this truth - claim it in your life!!!

Don't seem close to God? Get down on your knees before him and just open up your heart to him. This is not strange - this is a relationship. Can you have a relationship with your spouse, children or friends without spending time with them and talking to them? You can't - and that is what we need to do with Jesus. He longs for you to just be with him. So when you don't feel God's presence in your life remember the promise here in Jeremiah - to seek him with all your heart - AND HE WILL BE FOUND! Awesome promise! I have those days and moments when I can actually feel his presence and times when I may not feel it, but I absolutely know that he is always there. The Holy Spirit indwells in me and that is just the best.

That just brings a smile to my face.