We are told that if we seek God with all our heart, God will be found. (Jeremiah 29:13)
This is a beautiful image - the human soul desiring God and seeking after him with all that is within us. And God, we are promised, wants to be found, and even promises to be found. A strong motivating force.
But have you ever considered that God, too, is a seeker? He is seeking after us ...
The parables in Luke 15 play this out:
The Shepherd seeking after the lost sheep ...
The Woman seeking after the lost coin ...
The Father watching and waiting (seeking, even!) for the lost son ...
God is seeking us.
Simon Tugwell puts words to this stunning truth:
"So long as we imagine it is we who have to look for God, we must often lose heart. But it is the other way around - He is looking for us."
When I find myself feeling far from God, when I am not a very good seeker, when the "far country" I often live in feels too far, I rest in this heart-stopping truth - the God who is called "the hound of heaven" never, ever stops seeking after me.
He never, ever stops seeking after you.
