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He was a fine young man with a good heart. Perhaps
that is why he asked the question: “How do I find God?” I
answered, ”By looking for Him.”
He was feeling a kind of
emptiness inside his heart and was hoping to fill the void with
something or someone meaningful. He thought that God might be the
answer, but, like so many of us, wasn’t sure about how to go about
it.
Do you find God or does He find
you? What is the way to Him? Sure, you can read the Bible and try to
figure it all out, but that is easier said than done.
God is so complex, so mysterious
and we have such severe limitations that there is no way we can ever
know His mind. That, obviously, makes it extremely difficult if not
impossible to know Him, never mind find Him.
We know from experience that God
can be very elusive. So much so, that we sometimes think He is
hiding from us when we are searching for Him. It can all be so
frustrating. We might have all the good will, the desire to know Him
and get close to Him, but we find ourselves coming up empty-handed.
After all, He is a spirit, not made of flesh and blood. His mind is
so superior to ours that there is no way we can really know Him.
We know some things about Him.
The Scriptures, the Bible and our own experiences, but after all of
that we are left with so much more that we do not and cannot know.
We have to live with the reality
of what we are, and what He is. And the gap between us and Him is
incredibly great. This is why He needs to reach out to us. He will
find us before we ever find Him.
That is the great mystery that
makes it all so incomprehensible. It is difficult to understand why
the magnificent Being that He is would care at all to bridge the gap
that separates us from Him. But it is true. He does just that. He
has come to us through Christ Jesus and revealed something of
Himself in the Scriptures, though not nearly enough for us to truly
comprehend what He is all about.
But then, He would not be God if
we could truly understand Him because w would then be on par with
Him. What we need to do is look for Him with a sincere heart
believing that He will find us.
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drugs, alcohol and behavior/attitude call my office at 8206107 or
8251771 or e-mail me at gvcbuenca@vasia.com or write me at P.O. Box
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