![]() We have to seek Him out? We need to learn where to look? Do we need a road map? What do we first need to do before we start the search? What if we’re not good enough? And so forth… The “need” to search for Him, when we are told about it, actually is a problem, a stumbling-block, with a lot of “religions.” That we need to start searching puts it on us, as if all the work is ours. Heavenly nagging for which are grateful! Never letting us feel again like we are in that dark place, or deep in a figurative hole, or feeling completely lost, or clueless about whom to trust, what to do, where to turn, how to act.īut my point is about peace and reassurance. In fact, even gently, but always, He will not leave us alone. Jesus is the ever-present help in the times of trouble. Jesus promised that when He arose to Heaven, God would send the Holy Spirit to be the indwelling presence of God, to both comfort and enable us to be the Children of God. Your new brother, not anymore a mere concept of a Savior. No “searching” needed He already searched us out. When you accept Him, acknowledging Him as the Son of God, and believe that He took your sins upon Himself, and after dying for your punishment, rose from the dead… then He lives in your heart. He is not Someone on speed-dial not found by a spiritual Google-search. The nature of Jesus is that we don’t have to SEEK Him. OK, when we are in a dark place, or deep in a figurative hole, or feeling completely lost, or clueless about whom to trust, what to do, where to turn, how to act… of course we go into the search-mode.īut my point is this. The Savior, the Son of God, Himself does not represent futility in any regard. ![]() What I mean is an important component of the Gospel message and, I think, essential to getting to know this Jesus, this Best Friend, this Savior, this “Answer” to all our needs. So what in the world do I mean, in my title, about a “futile” search? “Wise men still seek Him,” as the Bible says or maybe it is a Christmas-season bumper strip, I forget. The usual detours are dissolution, alcohol, sex, drugs we know all the varieties.īut we are all alike in one basic way: our need for a Savior. As my new friend Janet said recently, the comfort of knowing someone Someone who does not only have the answers, but IS the answer.Īnd, yes, with that “hole” in our lives – which can be anything from loneliness to horrid desperation and everything in between – we look for it to be filled. We have an innate yearning for something better, and Someone better, in our lives an answer to the questions we cannot answer ourselves. Which is the reason that all people, at all times and in all places, have sought a god or found God. As Orson Bean, the comedian, said when he became a Christian, he realized that God designed us all as if we had a sort of hole in the middle of our emotions – something that needed to be filled. To reassure the curious, or assuage the indignant, I want to state that if this message were a foreign movie, the translation of the title (that is, my real meaning) would be as follows:Īll of humankind has a need for a Savior. ![]()
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