We have all heard evangelists quote from
Revelation: “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice
and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me” (Rev. 3:20). Usually
the evangelist applies this text as an appeal to the unconverted, saying:
“Jesus is knocking at the door of your heart. If you open the door, then He
will come in.” In the original saying, however, Jesus directed His remarks to
the church. It was not an evangelistic appeal.
So what? The point is that seeking is
something that unbelievers do not do on their own. The unbeliever will not
seek. The unbeliever will not knock. Seeking is the business of believers.
Jonathan Edwards said, “The seeking of the Kingdom of God is the chief business
of the Christian life.” Seeking is the result of faith, not the cause
of it.
When we are converted to Christ, we use
language of discovery to express our conversion. We speak of finding Christ. We
may have bumper stickers that read, “I Found It.” These statements are indeed
true. The irony is this: Once we have found Christ it is not the end of our
seeking but the beginning. Usually, when we find what we are looking for, it
signals the end of our searching. But when we “find” Christ, it is the
beginning of our search.
The Christian life begins at conversion; it
does not end where it begins. It grows; it moves from faith to faith, from
grace to grace, from life to life. This movement of growth is prodded by
continual seeking after God.
In your spiritual walk, are you moving from
faith to faith, from grace to grace, from life to life? Are you continually
seeking after God?
R.C. Sproul - September 18, 2013
http://www.ligonier.org/blog/are-you-seeking-after-god
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