Sought or Seeking

March 25

(Psalm 34:4 NIV) “I sought the Lord, and he answered me; he delivered me from all my fears.

(Psalm:34:10 NIV) “The lions may grow weak and hungry, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.”

(Luke 15:4 NIV) "Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Does he not leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it?"

Two pictures of God’s relationship with man emerge in Scripture. The first is of a Shepherd searching for His lost sheep. God comes looking for us. We see this when God came to the Garden seeking Adam and Eve. We also see it in the shepherd motif found in both the Old and New Testaments. God seeks us and finds us. But another contrasting picture can also be found in Scripture. The Prodigal son ran away from the Father and squandered his inheritance on wild living. The Father did not go after him or hunt him down. He waited and watched for the son to come home on his own. The lost son had to become the seeker. So which is the correct picture of God? Does He seek us or do we seek Him? The answer is, “Yes”. The Lord seeks us out and calls us to follow Him. But He is found by those who seek Him. Seek the Lord, Christian. Never stop. He is seeking you. -- Friar Tuck’s Word of the Day