26 June 2007 Devotion for Today “Seeking” Matthew 7:7-11
This is a continuation of yesterday’s devotion with the same Scripture text:
Also in Matthew 7:7 Jesus tells us to seek and you will find. Again, seeking, like asking, is a continuous action verb. Jesus is referring to a prayer of supplication or petition urging us to move forward on our requests and not stop until we get the answer. As its not enough just to ask one time, we need to keep on seeking to demonstrate not just to God, but to ourselves, how serious we are to find the answer God wants to give us. Seeking is a demonstration of our faith. We need to seek the way a woman seeks, not like a man seeks. If a woman goes to the mall to shop, she woman will take all afternoon searching for something she wants. Seeking is part of the experience of shopping. But a man won’t do that- if he goes to the shopping mall at all, he goes into the store, gets what he’s wants, pays for it, goes home. The whole experience takes him 20 minutes verses 2-3 hours. The same is true in the refrigerator. If a woman is looking for a jar of mayonnaise, it might take a half an hour because while she is looking for it, she sees other things in there that doesn’t need to be in there and take them out, also. But if a man goes looking for that jar of mayonnaise and it doesn’t fall into his outstretched hand the first time he looks, forget it!
Jesus was saying keep seeking, keep on searching, keep on looking. God wants you to seek out what it is you really want so that you can be specific enough to ask by faith.
HEB 11;6 And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly SEEK him. "The lions may grow weak and hungry, but those who SEEK the LORD lack no good thing." PS 34;10.
In seeking, remember this attitude: Pray as if everything depends on God, then work as if everything depends on you. Martin Luther
Have a blessed day!
Rev. Jeffery C. Russell
Elizabeth City, NC
jefferyrussell@embarqmail.com
jcrussell@liberty.edu
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