Keep Searching

Keep Searching...
"When you call on me, when you come and pray to me, I'll listen. When you come looking for me, you'll find me. Yes, when you get serious about finding me and want it more than anything else, I'll make sure you won't be disappointed." Jeremiah 29:12-13 (the Message)

This week has been crazy, I really don't know how to put it other than that. Yesterday, I had only one thing on my plate, to make sure we can get the Super Bowl played in "the Refuge," our youth room, for our youth Super Bowl party Sunday. That's kind of hard when you don't have cable or satellite. Well, neither do we, my wife and I got unplugged from cable and satellite about a year ago, and that's been a blessing, however, I can't write about that here, I'll talk about that one later. What my wife and I do have is an antenna and a digital TV box. We get about 20 channels, but only about 5 worth watching, however, one of those channels is what the Super Bowl is on, so I simply unplugged everything at the house and brought it up to the church, thinking, plug it all up just the same and it will work, WRONG! I took the antenna up on the roof, and we got 20 channels just no NBC (Super Bowl Channel). So I moved the blooming antenna all over the church grounds trying to find an NBC signal. I was about to lose hope, when all the sudden, as I was walking around outside, holding the antenna box up with a 7 foot stick over my head, I heard it connect. I was so excited, I had found it. There it was NBC coming in pretty clear. So I leaned the stick and antenna up against the church building to go get something to mark the spot with. While I was inside the wind blew it down, at first I thought no problem just pick it back up, so I did, the same spot, the same everything, but no signal. I still have no clue what happened. So, I searched for another hour, that would make almost 3 hours, I had been searching. So, with no luck, I finally gave up, and I was walking around with the antenna to take it inside. I was really frustrated, and really didn't understand, why it didn't work. I had no idea what I was going to do, I have all these teenagers coming to watch the game, but there was no way to watch it. So, as I got to the window to put it back inside, I lowered the stick down to take the antenna off, when all the sudden, with the antenna at my waist, NBC came on the TV. I had found it, after searching crazily for hours, walking on the roof, walking around the building with a stick and an antenna box, I had finally found it.

You know there were several moments, I thought about giving up, and calling for help, but I was to prideful. I'm all man at times, what can I say? But after searching long and hard I found it. The scriptures tell us if we search for God with all our heart, wanting Him more than anything else, we will not be disappointed for we will find God. So often I think we just expect God to be there, we expect God to do things for us, but there are times when all the sudden, God seems distant, He seems so far away from you. And so often this is not because God took His eyes off us, but because we took our eyes off Him. God forgive us for that! The Father says, pray and look, look with everything you got and you will find me. I will be behind the scenes of your life, bringing it all together as only I can. He may seem absent, but He's not. He promises us that He is with us, even till the end of the age.