“Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.” Jeremiah 29:12-13 (ESV)
We are promised in this proclamation from God, through Jeremiah, that when we seek God we will find God. Does it seem sometimes that when we are looking for God’s help or an answer to a perplexing circumstance, getting a response is difficult? What is our attitude when we call on God? What is our expectations when we seek Him for help? Is it to hear and obey what God has to say to us? Or, is it to preserve our way of life and escape the trials and testing we facing? In this passage just prior to this verse, God is telling Israel that after seventy years in Babylon He will visit His people and He will fulfill His promise to bring them back to Jerusalem. There is much that will happen first because they are yet in wholehearted rebellion against the message Jeremiah has been bringing to them. When we receive a message from God through His Word the Bible or through teaching or preaching of His Word, our response needs to be a wholehearted desire to seek God. That is when God promises to hear and listen to our cry.
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