Family Churchman Deuteronomy 4:29-31 But if from there you shall seek the LORD your God, you shall find him, if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.… I. WHAT IS INVOLVED IN SEEKING GOD? 1. A sense of dissatisfaction with distance from Him. When men have all they want they do not set out upon a quest. Only the heart that feels the destitution and misery of being without God will address itself to this quest. 2. A conviction that God is to be found. Men do not seek for fruits and grain upon the ocean, but they seek them with assurance from the soil they till. Doubtless many, searching in the wrong direction, have exclaimed, "Who can, by searching, find out God?" But those who look for the Eternal in His Word, and especially in the person of His Son, cannot look in vain. 3. The seeking for God to be successful must be sincere, earnest, diligent — i.e. "with all thy heart and with all thy soul" — more eagerly and resolutely than men in the East sought for hidden treasure, than men seek for health, knowledge, wealth or fame. Those who thus seek for Christ — "the pearl of great price" — are not far from Him. III. WHAT IS PROMISED TO THOSE WHO THUS SEEK GOD? 1. They shall find the Object of their desire: "They that seek Me early shall find Me. Not like the search for the philosopher's stone, which men foolishly wasted life in endeavouring to find. 2. They shall find God in Christ. 3. In Christ they shall find "rest to their souls," joy, life eternal. They who find Christ find Him never to lose Him, or aught that He bestows. (Family Churchman.) Parallel Verses KJV: But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. |
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