Heart-Seekers

By A.W. Tozer, Friday, June 18, 2004

You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. (Jeremiah 29:13 NIV)

The amount of loafing practiced by the average Christian in spiritual things would ruin a concert pianist if he allowed himself to do the same thing in the field of music. The idle puttering around that we see in church circles would end the career of a big league pitcher in one week. No scientist could solve his exacting problem if he took as little interest in it as the rank and file of Christians take in the art of being holy. The nation whose soldiers were as soft and undisciplined as the soldiers of the churches would be conquered by the first enemy that attacked it. Triumphs are not won by men in easy chairs. Success is costly.
If we would progress spiritually, we must separate ourselves unto the things of God and concentrate upon them to the exclusion of a thousand things the worldly man considers important. We must cultivate God in the solitudes and the silence; we must make the kingdom of God the sphere of our activity and labor in it like a farmer in his field, like a miner in the earth.

Prayer
Make me a heart-seeker after You, O God. To seek You throughout the day and recognize You when You are found.

Thought
Do we seek Him with all our heart or is it merely an occasional glance? He is to be found in the solitude and silence as well as the emotionally charged moments.