Seeking God Series
For many, seeking God is too subjective a pursuit with little or no measurable immediate or even measurable benefits. Yet our physical, mental and social life on Earth is life is full of subtleties, some of which are essential to health and well being. The same is true spiritually. Without our best effort, we risk much in this life and the next and may well miss the greatest blessings in time and eternity.
Worth the Effort?
There may be as many opinions as to how and why to seek God as there are people. Many in the modern world find the prospect too daunting. Given the Creator's transcendence and majesty, as well as His apparent silence and distance, today billions find it simpler to "eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die."
Yet in the end is it? As mortal beings, fearfully and wonderfully made, we desperately need to know our Creator and Savior. Facing challenges and dangers in both time and eternity, as well as the ultimate Evil One, what better use of our time and energy could there be?
Each of us decides whether it's worth the effort. Even deciding not to decide is a decision. Those seeking God then choose how much time and trouble to invest. Do we depend on others or get personally involved? If so, to what extent? What and how much am I willing to give to the pursuit? Am I willing to risk failure? How would I define success?
Aware of it or not we all answer these questions, albeit often by default. Many simply float along in streams of religious thought, buoyed by family and tradition. Others, for a myriad of reason, find various ways to venture out into less charted waters.
While it's in vogue to declare faith and reason incompatible, in actuality the genuine of each are inseparable, given that anyone who can add can prove the existence of God as well as the overwhelming evidence for the authenticity of the Bible. So why do so many deny or marginalize God's existence? For a variety of reasons, some more valid than others, they find faith inconvenient and/or obedience too costly.
Even so two billion, or about two thirds of humanity, identify themselves as Christian. Yet of this number only a tiny percentage of a percentage of a percentage take the time to seriously understand their faith or the Bible that describes it. While somewhat complex, the path to seeking to God is not complicated and considering all there is to loose or gain, beginning the journey and seeing it through is our only logical choice.
Steps on the Path of Seeking God
The following are a summary of the steps or waypoints on the path of seeking God. For a more detailed treatment of each please click the link:
- Faith: Stages of belief that God exists and rewards our effort to seek Him.
- Prayer: Continual effort to touch and be touched by God.
- Study: Diligence to understand Biblical revelation concerning the nature of both God and man.
- Action: Willingness to act on levels of truth being discovered.
- Temptation: Adherence to scriptures code of required conduct.
- Revelation: Insight into God through the Bible and inward witness.
- Commitment: Increased investment of time and energy into serving God.
- Resistance: Disappointment and sorrow in people and circumstances.
- Cost: Paying the price to stay the course.
- Decision: Deepening commitment to serving God and the greater good.
- Endurance: Spurring oneself and others on to faith, hope and love.
- Persecution: Likely outcome of acceptably seeking and serving God.
- Reward: Promised glory for all who overcome by enduring until the end.
More Resources
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