~ We do not FIND, because We do not SEEK ~
YESHUA the MESSIAH instructs us, dare I say, encourages us to seek and ask . . .
Let’s take a closer look at
Matthew 7 : 7 – 8
Ask and it shall be given you.
Seek and you shall find.
Knock and it shall be opened to you.
For everyone who is asking is obtaining, and
who is seeking is finding,
and to him who is knocking it shall be opened.
~Young’s Literal Translation
¨ I want you to notice the promise JESUS is giving to us.
“If we seek, we WILL find” ~paraphrased~
¨ I also want you to notice that the Greek here is a “continual” asking, seeking, and finding relationship !
Let me ask you, are you ACTIVELY asking and seeking HIM ?
¨ Or has your LOVE and ANTICIPATION for HIS return grown lukewarm ?
Has your “seeking” and “asking” become so non-existent in your life that the Promise of HIS return seems more like a “fairy” tale than an impending reality ?
This is not a matter of “do you care”, but rather “should you care?”
JESUS said,
Let not your heart be troubled: you believe in GOD, believe also in ME.
In my FATHER's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto MYSELF; that where I AM, there you may be also.
~John 14 : 1 - 3
See also in Acts 1 : 9 – 11
And when JESUS had spoken these things, while they beheld, HE was taken up; and a cloud received HIM out of their sight.
And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as HE went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
Which also said, You men of Galilee , why stand you gazing up into heaven? This same JESUS, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen HIM go into heaven.
Let me ask you ?
¨ Do YOU believe HE is Coming again?
¨ If so? What are the signs of HIS return?
May the LORD reward your seeking and asking with divine finding!
May it be done according to HIS WORD!
