UV3417/10000 The Most Essential Need of Humanity
For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel, “ Seek Me (search diligently for Me and regard Me as more essential than food) so that you may live.”
Amos 5 v 4
This uni-verse exhorts us to regard God and our relationship with Him as our most essential need. In Him will all the rest of our needs be met adequately and abundantly. He is more essential for our well being than food or shelter or clothes. If we seek Him with all our hearts, we will surely find Him. Likewise, we are not to be in awe or fear of anything or anyone other than God. He is not just an adjunct to our lives but the cause and source of our lives. Hence, we need to revere, respect, adore Him above all and everything.
Seeking God implies having the deepest desire to know Him, His ways, His will. Jesus, being the Son of God, exhibited this kind of love or zeal for the Father. We are likewise to be passionate in our search for God and the things of God. When we give first priority to Him in our lives, He gives priority to our other needs. God revealed Himself first to Israel or the descendants of Jacob who was first called Israel and had a personal relationship with Him. He caused His Son Jesus to be also born in the house of Israel as a descendant of Jacob. But the Jewish religion or Judaism has blinded the eyes of most of the people of Israel from knowing the truth. Hence, God is not found in religion but in having a personal relationship with Him.
Today, if we are diligent in searching the scriptures, the Old as well as the New Testaments, we will find God. When we find Him, the God –shaped vacuum in our hearts that nothing and no one else in this world can fill, gets filled. Though He is awesome or fearful in power, He is intimate and gentle with us. We obtain satisfaction at a very deep emotional and spiritual level. In finding Him, we fulfil the very purpose of our lives. God helps us fulfil our personal goals and needs as only a sub text to that purpose.
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