In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

Next on in touch, Seeking the Lord.

We are a nation in pursuit.

We pursue just about everything you can imagine, not only wealth and relationships, clothing,

gadgets, just think about all the things that we pursue, sports, all kinds of situations and

circumstances that crop up in our life. We are after this and after that and

after the other. That's who we are. And somehow, amidst all of these things that are out there in front of us that so distract

us, I wonder sometimes where God fits in the way we position things in our life.

Is he first and foremost, or is he an afterthought?

Is he the most important person in our life,

or is he just one of the many people in our life?

Where does God fit?

Well, all through the scriptures, especially in the Old Testament, we're admonished to seek the Lord. So what in the world is it mean to seek him?

Somebody says, well why should I be seeking him? I've been a Christian for a pretty good

while and I don't know why I would have to be seeking something I already have. Well I want you

to listen carefully and I want you to turn to the 105th Psalm for a moment and I want us to

look at this passage. 105th Psalm in just a few verses.

It's a Psalm of real action.

And of course, I look to see what is the object of this and who it's all about.

Listen to what he says beginning in verse one.

Oh give thanks to the Lord, call upon his name, make known his needs among the peoples.

Sing to him, sing praises to him. Speak of all of his wonders. Glory in his

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