"11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
12 Then you will call upon ME and come and pray to ME, and I will hear you.
13 You will "SEEK ME AND FIND ME", when you seek ME with all your heart."
Not to belabor the point, but I understand when my brain hemorrhage occurred in 2007 my wife said "He's going to be okay, I need him"! The fact of the matter is, everyone knows I am the most dependent person and my wife takes better care of me than a President gets taken care of! She thought she needed me, I think I need her. Is that a sign of a healthy relationship? I'm sure both of us would be able to survive without the other, but neither of us want to start trying tomorrow to accomplish that!
No one can replace the LORD in our lives. To have the JOY and PEACE that is irreplaceable is something that can't be described, nor do I want to! HE says HE will be there for us when we "SEEK ME AND FIND ME", when we search for HIM with all our hearts! Knowing that the CREATOR of the universe is there for me when I call upon HIS Name is a comfort beyond words. Having a ONE-sided "dependent relationship" with HIM is the biggest honor and privilege a person could have.
But the frustration of seeking HIM without totally trusting HIM can be REALLY maddening. When we say we trust HIM and proceed to question the direction HE leads us in, are we REALLY trusting in HIM or are we WANTING for HIM to get us out of a bind? Until we get to the point of TRUSTING, not only where HE's leading us, but how HE's leading us, and on the timeline HE's leading us, I submit we are not REALLY TRUSTING WITH OUR WHOLE HEART!
Either GOD is GOD and HE is WHO HE says HE is, or HE is a liar and a fraud. When we "SEEK ME AND FIND ME" with ALL our hearts, we WILL find HIM. GOD loves to provide the "desires of our hearts" (Psalms 37:4), but we have to SEEK HIM with all our beings, not just wanting to get out of the predicament we're in!!!
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