Seek and Search
This blog has been a long time in the making! These past two months God has been teaching me some really cool things as I journey on the World Race. There is so much, it is hard to answer people when they ask me, What’s been going on. But the constant thing that God keeps showing me and teaching me is this idea of seek and search! It’s a phrase that God keeps putting in my head and on my heart. It seems like such a easy phrase that is basic to the Christian faith, but these past months God has been asking me to seek more and to search more. He wants me to go deeper. It’s a journey of going further not just being complacent where I am, because there is always so much more to see and learn. Even when you think you know it all there, is so much more. The fun part is that the new knowledge is more sweeter and beautiful that what we knew before.
God has been using some lived-out examples to keep placing this concept to my attention. When my team traveled to Victoria Falls in month one, we ventured down to the boiling pot. The boiling pot was at the bottom on the falls or so we thought. Once we got there it was amazing it was an open gorge and the river, but you couldn’t really see the falls. 
The falls were hidden by high cliffs, but it was still very beautiful. As we continued to look, I wanted more I didn’t want to settle with just this beauty. I wanted to see the falls from another perspective. So I began to search for a better angle. There we some rocks that I climbed down, as I kept trying to get a better view. Once I got across the rocks a little ways, I looked up and there they were … the falls. I could see the top of the water and it was gorgeous, but that still was not enough. So I continued to climb until I saw more of the falls and the view continued to get better.
Then I just sat at that point to look and take in the view as I praised God for how beautiful His creation was. Then he pressed in on my heart to keep searching and He knew I would find something more. So I had to climb up to get back down to go across a few more rocks, and then when I looked up … I was in awe! It was the view I wanted. I could see the falls from top to bottom it was amazing. A breath-taking view that I never would have seen if I was just happy with the beauty in front on me. This illustration was what God had been teaching me. How I see God now and what I know about God now is so sweet and beautiful that I could just linger in it and be happy. But that is not what He is calling me to do! He wants me to seek him more, to search for him more. When I make the effort to climb and search for more of Him that I will find him. It is a conscious effort to make this journey, its not something that just happens. But to seek is to actively go find. God is wanting me to be intentional with my pursuit of him. I know there is more beauty to see and I will search and find it. The awesome thing is that God is wanting to show us more of him, all the time. He wants us to find him in our prayer life and reading the Bible, there is so much power in those two things. But it’s even more that just those two times, God wants us to search for him at all times in our everyday life. In the way we work, in the landscapes we see, in the people we meet, God is there. It’s seeking his presence constantly.
Last month we were in Malawi and God really put what He was teaching me to the test because we had nothing at our compound; it was just the basics. Which by the end of the month I am so glad that this month God stripped me of everything. He stripped me of easy living, of comfort, and of any normal I was used to. Through living like this I found the joy of completely just being with God and enjoying his presence. It was another seek and search. It didn’t come easy finding the joy and God in our situation, but it became so evident He was there and working when I just looked. Getting up early to see the sunrise and being able to see the vastness of the stars at night just shows his creativity and desire to impress me. It was the struggle of carrying a 20 liter water bottle a half mile back to our compound that will forever change my prayer life!
In the quiet and in every moment we choose to seek God or to go with our own decision and desires. In Malawi it would have been so easy to just sit and sulk, or complain, or even to try and make my own fun but I chose to take up the cross and seek after Christ to see his perspective on life and how I should spend it. I found him in a new way. Living in Him in the moment by moment that is when we really find Him. God is always there beside us and always showing us more of himself. We just have to seek and search and find it.
Deuteronomy 4:28 But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
