Falling In Love

“The more I seek You, the more I find You;
The more I find You, the more I love You”
-Lyrics to “The More I Seek You” by Kari Jobe

God wants you. The creator of the universe wants you. The God of all space and time wants you. He wants to spend time with you, He wants to pour into your life, He wants to reveal His love to you in an ever-increasing way; however, you have to seek Him.

God tells us that we will find Him when we seek Him with all of our heart.  (Jeremiah 29:13) He wants us to give our all to Him just like Jesus did when He gave His all to us by dying for us. God says that there is great reward for those who seek Him. (Hebrew 11:6)  As Kari Jobe expresses in her song, the more we seek and find God, the more we love Him. I think that happens because we realize more and more how much God loves us.

Seeking God is the hardest thing you will do. Time is very valuable and with a world that seems to spin faster and faster every day, it can be difficult to give God adequate time. Take small steps; start out by spending a minute in His presence everyday.  A minute will turn into two minutes and two to three and three to four and so on. “The more we seek Him... the more we love Him.” The more we love Him, the more time we will want to spend with Him.

Jason Gray wrote in one of his songs: “It’s more like falling in love, than something to believe in. More like loosing my heart, than giving my allegiance.” If we intentionally seek God, there is a reward. That reward is not what we would necessarily expect, but it is falling in love with the one who first loved us.

One of my favorite songwriters of our time, Mrs. Gloria Gaither once mentioned in a performance, "I've come to believe that all that God puts in our lives, good and bad, joy and pain, successes and failures, sometimes horrible failures, He puts there to crowd us closer to Him."

As I think upon that statement, I think about the grace and love of my forgiving God; He uses my failures to draw me closer to Him. He uses my failures to teach me wisdom. He uses my failures to reveal to me how much I need Him. He uses my failures to show me how much He loves me.

The Bible tells us that Jesus came to heal those who were sick. "Those who are healthy don't need a physician," Jesus said, "but those who are sick do." God allows us to fail him, get off course, and sometimes "take the long road home" so that we will realize how much we need Him.

It may not be very comfortable at the moment to realize how much of a failure you really are without God, it may be humbling; but our God promises to "never leave or forsake us" and promises "plans to prosper you; to give you hope and a future." So when you fall, don't worry, God's going to pick you up and bring you even closer to Him.