Seeking Him Out
Psalm 86:5,6 My Lord, you are good and merciful. You love all those who call to you for help. LORD, hear my prayer. Listen to my cry for mercy.
When adversity slaps you in the face (yet again!) how much do you feel like reaching out to God? The answer for many, is not all that much. So we just sit there and stew in our misery as though that’ll fix everything.
Yesterday we chatted about the reality, the powerful reality, the liberating, lifechanging reality that Jesus came to this earth to seek out and to save the lost. Terrible people like Zacchaeus the tax collector of whom He said:
Yes, even this tax collector is one of God’s chosen people. The Son of Man came to find lost people and save them.
That’s great news … He’s actually seeking out sinners like you and me so we need never run and hide in our shame, in our fear, in our adversity. In fact, the absolute opposite is true. Writes King David of Israel, a thousand or so years before Jesus walked this earth:
Psalm 86:5,6 My Lord, you are good and merciful. You love all those who call to you for help. LORD, hear my prayer. Listen to my cry for mercy.
In his times of trouble – possibly because he’d been through so many – David’s instinct was to reach out, to cry out to God. To implore Him – listen to my cry for mercy.
You know what? That’s a good instinct. A very good instinct. Because God is a God of grace and mercy, a God of love and forgiveness. It’s who He is. That’s why He sent Jesus to come and seek you out. And that’s why He yearns for you to cry out to Him.
Seek Him out. He wants to be found.
That’s God’s Word. Fresh … for you … today.
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