God Seeking

Cornelius, a devout and one who feared God with all his household, giving many alms to the people and beseeching God continually. Acts 10:1,2. Even a gentile sought for God ardently, and an angel of God came to him and said, "Your prayers and your alms as a memorial have ascended before God v.4." These verses prove that God is righteous to all, and listens and answers and compensates the genuine seeker of God.

What a gentile testimony! Devout, feared God with all his household! Even many believing families doe not have a household fearing of God, but this gentile! Gave alms, I guess, mostly to the needy, and beseeching God continually! I dare ask how many believers cared for the poor and sought God continually. This is no mere religiosity or superstition. Its genuine! For God have to even send angel to convey His acceptance of all his deeds. Though good deeds don't save, still it reflects the heart and attitude of a person towards God. A proper and genuine seeking heart is needed.

No wonder, many believers today believed because they sought for God; though some may be otherwise. The general case is, if any sought for God genuinely, God appeared to them and saved them. The seeking heart is a prepared heart for God. On the contrary, many who were not seeking for God also were never saved. They are self satisfied and complacent towards God and God seems to be far away from them.

Even after believing, this seeking heart is still needed, to grow more in the Lord until maturity. These days the speaking of the Lord to the church is for more growth in the divine life. For a proper growth, a genuine seeking heart is needed. A heart that is hungry for God and thirsty for Him everyday. Without this, even if God has to bless, it would avail to nothing. When one is seeking, he pays any price to gain God, to gain Christ and to be fully saturated with Him. Today, many have invested or rather spent a lot for health, good living, good education, and many other things mostly for the soul and the body. Yet only few paid attention to spiritual growth and maturity. If we have to spend even just 10% of what have been spent for the physical needs and psychological satisfaction, for the spiritual growth there will be tremendous growth. This reflects ones attitude towards God and His seeking heart.

Lord, give me a seeking heart to seek You and You only and ever only You.