God has been waiting for this very day. Waiting for you to just come to him with your broken pieces, your disappointment, your fears and your worries, and seek him with your whole heart. Girl, why did it have to get this bad before you finally came to him? Why do we wait? I’m not sure, but that is often what we do.
But here you are today, at the end of yourself feeling quite hopeless, and this is where you drop that heavy burden and you surrender it all to God. That is what he has been waiting for.
While you’ve been away, wandering about through life, God hasn’t hated you. Honey, he has always loved you. He has always awaited your return to him. He has wanted nothing more than for you to seek him so he can reveal himself to you.
So, here you are … and God sees you! He saw you as you decided you would try this on your own. He saw you as you got busy with life and put him on the back burner. He saw you as you made a mess. But he never once stopped loving you. He waited.
He’s been waiting through these storms. Waiting through these struggles. Waiting with all the power in the world to help you, guide you, rescue you and restore you. The only thing you have to do is decide today is the day you begin seeking him with all your heart and soul.
Right here, at this very moment, you can whisper in your heart, “God, I want you to be the Lord of my life.”
You’ve tried this on your own and it’s simply not working. But when you put God back in his rightful place over your life, things start changing! You won’t be a magically new person with a brand new fixed life over night, but God will begin doing his work to make you new. As you seek him with all your heart, your daily habits and priorities will begin to change. Your thoughts will become different. You will respond to the same problems in a different way. And with these gradual, God directed changes and shifts, your life gets back in alignment with the good plans your Creator has had for you from the beginning. That’s how it happens!
It all begins with a decision to seek Him. That’s it. It doesn’t have to be any more complicated than that. Just decide you want God in your life and you want to give him your life.
Our Bibles are filled with stories of people just like us who would lose their way, wander away from God, make a mess, then God would wait for them to come back. And no matter how many times they had wandered away, the moment they called out to God again, he responded. But it was always life’s troubles that brought them back to God. And that’s what’s bringing you back right now isn’t it? Trouble.
GOD CAN HELP WITH THAT! He’s been waiting for you to seek him for this.
2 Chronicles 15:4, “But whenever they were in trouble and turned to the Lord and sought him out, they found him.” Verse 12, “Then they entered into a covenant to seek the Lord with all their heart and soul.” Verse 15, “They earnestly sought after God, and they found him. And the Lord gave them rest from their enemies on every side.”
I might not know what enemies you’ve been battling and what wars you’ve been in, but I know God can give you rest from all that. I know he can strengthen you to overcome and break free from that struggle. I know the answer for every single problem you face is to simply SEEK GOD.
We are promised that when we seek God, we will FIND HIM.
Deuteronomy 4:29, “If you search for the Lord with all your heart and soul, you will find him.” Verse 31, “For the Lord your God is a merciful God; he will not destroy you or forget the covenant he made with your ancestors.”
You are under covenant with God. An agreement … if you seek him, he will make himself found for you. If you ask him for help, he will help you.