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#Matthew 7:7: “…Seek and you will find…”
This scripture like all scriptures have a profound meaning that the Spirit of God in His mercy revealed to me. This meaning I’m privileged to share.
Your seeking God does not make you find Him. Your seeking God makes you locate the place from where God can find you.
Jesus said,
“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him…” (John 6:44).
What you find when you seek God, is the place from which the Father can draw you. The place from where you can be extracted.
Jesus told His disciples something that I believe made them wonder;
“You did not choose me, but I chose you…” (John 15:16).
Like saying, “You did not come to me, I came to you.”
In the parable of the lost sheep (Luke 15:3-7), the shepherd went looking for the lost sheep.
In the parable of the lost coin (Luke 15:8-10), the woman searched for the lost coin.
In the parable of the lost son (Luke 15:11-32), the father did not go looking for His boy. He painstakingly waited for His son to return to his rightful place. The Father ran and hugged His son when He saw the boy at a distance, in a particular place. The boy was not coming back as a son, he came back as a servant. But his Father saw him at a distance and came to him.
The boys reaching out to his Father could not bring him to his Father. If the Father had not reached out, the boy could have come back a servant, a semi-stranger in the house. If the Father had not reached out, the boy could have come back to a Master and not a Father.
The son’s journey alone could not get him to his Father, it could only get him to the master. The Fathers journey from the house when he saw the boy from afar was what restored the boy.
“So he got up and went to his father.
“But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms
around him and kissed him.” (Luke 15:20).
The prodigal son got to the place from where the Father could find Him. The place from where his Father found him.
The parable of the lost son thus ends;
“But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is “found”.’”" (Luke
15:32).
This boy traveled a long distance to get home but the Father in the last verse of the parable didn’t say he found them, he said he was found by them.
We are called the sons of God.
“You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus,” (Galatians 3:26).
There is a place God has designed/marked out for you. When you find that place, God finds you.
God came down in the garden of Eden looking for Adam after Adam had sinned and God surprisingly did not find him.
“Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden. But the LORD God called to the man, “Where are you?”" (Genesis 3:8-9).
The big question here is, didn’t the omniscient God know where Adam was?
The answer is that God will not directly look for you where He did not place you. God being omniscient must have known where Adam was, but He also knew that was not where He placed Him. When Adam was out of place, God did not go to Him, God called out to Him. He could not go to Him because He could not fellowship with sin.
Adam was physically in a place God found him but was spiritually (eternally) in a place God could not find him.
When you are out of place in destiny you enjoy only the voice and not the presence of the Almighty.
The rarer the mineral, the more strategic its location. There are some regions where contractors don’t bother looking for gold or oil deposits. For it to be gold, it has to be in a particular location, deep beneath the earth. No one looks for gold or diamond on the surface of the soil, you don’t look for it everywhere. In the same way its not everywhere that God expects His people to be.
Minerals don’t find miners, miners find minerals. Fruits don’t find vegetarians, vegetarians find fruits. Minerals are found at particular places, a vegetarian would not go into an electrical store to look for fruits.
“Then he told this parable: “A man had a fig tree, planted in his vineyard, and he went to look for fruit on it, but did not find any.”
(Luke 13:6).
The man spoken about here represents God.
God did not go anywhere looking for fruit, He went to a particular place. Just like He did in the garden of Eden, and as He still does today.
When you seek, what you find is your place in God, where God has marked out for you, your extraction point.
Extraction Point:
This place I speak of from where God can find you is not a physical place, its a spiritual and an atmospheric place.
Just like it doesn’t rain because its spring time. Rather it rains because certain conditions have been met in the clouds. In the same way, God doesn’t show up in certain places and times, He shows up under certain conditions and in certain atmospheres.
Some of the atmospheres, Characters and Qualities that generate and attract the presence of God are:
1. Obedience: “Jesus replied, “If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.” (John 14:23).
If you noticed in this verse, your obedience doesn’t bring you to God, it makes God come to you, it makes God find you.
2. Thirst/Intense desire: “For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground;” (Isaiah 44:3).
A thirsty soul attracts the outpouring of Gods presence.
3. A broken and contrite heart: “The LORD is “close” to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.” (Psalms
34:18).
This verse did not say the contrite in heart are close to God, it says God is the one who is close to them. They don’t find God, God finds them.
4. The fear of God: “The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him, and he delivers them.” (Psalms 34:7).
On the home page of this blog you’ll also see a scripture that reads;
“The LORD confides in those who fear him;” (Psalms 25:14).
You come close to someone you want to confide in, to someone you want to tell a secret.
This qualities and attributes I mentioned are some of the elements that lead you to your extraction point in God. They create the aroma that
attracts God. An aroma that God finds irresistible.
“Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.” (Matthew 24:28).
The above passage can be applied as follows, “Whenever there is sin, the devil gathers” and, “Wherever there is Holiness, righteousness, long suffering, love, patience… etc the Trinity gathers.”
Just like the carcass has an odor that attracts vultures, so does holiness, humility, righteousness, perseverance, generosity, love and the likes of it have an aroma that attracts God.
From an angle it seems as if sin is taking you away from God, from another angle you’ll notice that sin is actually taking God away from you. Most times you’re not the one moving, He is the one moving.
The place where God resides is so far that your movement can’t get you there. Only Gods movement can bring you there.
“…God is in heaven and you are on earth…” (Ecclesiastes 5:2).
Gods dwelling place is so discreet that it can’t be found, it can only be revealed.
The door that leads into Gods presence is so big and heavy that you can’t open it. He is the only one who has the strength to open it.
“…Knock and the door will be opened to you.” (Matthew 7:7).
This scripture did not say, “Knock and you will open the door” or, “Knock and I will tell you to open the door.”
The door will be opened to you, but it can’t be opened by you.
Since you can’t open it, you find out how to make God open it for you. This is why the scripture says:
“….find out what pleases the Lord.” (Ephesians 5:10)……What will make Him open the large door, what will get Him attracted to you.
The stone is too heavy that the contractors don’t try to lift it themselves. Instead they master the use of a tractor because its the only equipment that has enough strength to lift the load.
In the same way we should find out the things we we are to do that would make God grant us access to His presence, that would make His
kingdom come.
If you noticed in the Lords prayer, Jesus said, “Your Kingdom come,” and not, “We will go to Your Kingdom.”
His kingdom finds us, it comes to us. He is beyond our reach but we are not beyond His reach.
God on earth is not in a place. He is in an attitude, in a character, in a meek spirit, in a good reply, in an encouraging word, in a Loving approach, in a hug, in a generous hand, in a caring heart etc..
All this and more create the atmosphere that creates rain, that invokes the presence of the Almighty.
Always remember that no matter where you are, you can find God. Or better put, “You can get God to find you.”
The Holy Spirit who is our in built GPS is always faithful to re-calculate our route and lead us to our extraction point through Jesus Christ our Lord.
God bless you!
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