"You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart." Jeremiah 29:13

I didn’t want to paint today.

But I could feel Him pulling me towards a certain painting. So I went for it. I knew that He was asking me to meet Him there, and if He was calling me closer, I knew it was because He had something awesome in store. And man is He faithful!

About 10 minutes into painting I felt it - His presence. To be perfectly honest, as of this morning I wasn’t sure what He wanted this devotional to be about. I wasn’t worried, I knew He would show up like He always does. But it was definitely a lesson in ‘His timing and not mine’. Because He was waiting. He was waiting for my obedience. He was waiting for me to follow His instructions and SEEK HIM OUT INTENTIONALLY. He was waiting for me to meet Him at that canvas, and it had nothing to do with the painting. It was about me and it was about Him.

Life gets in the way sometimes when we let it, and this past week I had been feeling the strain of that. I felt a distance between myself and God that I knew I couldn’t afford to let continue. And it made me downright uncomfortable.

But the truth is, He hadn’t changed. I had. I was busy, and I wasn’t making seeking Him out as a priority.

Until this morning.

I took my feelings of not wanting to paint, and I listened to His call. I am so glad I did. As I delved further into where He was leading, I found that there are literally a TON of verses about SEEKING HIM.

So what does that mean exactly? When I think of seeking something, I immediately go to Hide and Seek as a kid. You know the game. The seeker counts while everyone else hides. And after they’re done counting, their mission is to find all of the other players. And in fact, the game isn’t over until everyone is found.

What if we were to seek God like that? What if our determination was so great that we wouldn’t stop until we found Him and felt His presence? He has given us so many ways to find Him. He has given us the Bible, prayer, worship. We literally have no excuse.

And when we SEEK HIM INTENTIONALLY, we are promised that we will find Him, and He will be faithful to show up in ways you never thought possible. So today, do it. Seek Him out. He’s waiting with something amazing.