My evening readings is in the Hebrew Scriptures in this present season, and I am currently going through Genesis – a wonderfully edifying, hugely instructive for understanding the whole of the Scriptures and awesome in gleanings from the word of God, by the grace of God. Recently, I was really encouraged by a particular verse and reminded through it to remember to seek God about all our troubles. This verse was Genesis 25:22. The context is that Rebekah, the wife of Isaac, the son of Abraham, is pregnant with Esau and Jacob and becomes troubled about whether her pregnancy is going along okay (see Genesis 25:22-24). The simplicity and yet the profoundness of the way Rebekah sought the Lord set forth at Genesis 25:22 struck me deeply. It says this: ‘ But the children struggled together within her; and she said, “If all is well, why am I like this?” So she went to inquire of the Lord’ (underlined for emphasis). What is more, as we see in the next verse, the Lord answered Rebekah when she sought Him!
Pondering on the above this morning, in the light of my own experience the day before of seeking Almighty God for wisdom and guidance on a particular matter and seeing the answer begin to unfold, the words from Matthew 7:7-8 came upon my thoughts. Lord Yeshua says, as recorded, to His disciples – and to all who are His:
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.”
And, let us not forget what Almighty God has promised recorded for us at Jeremiah 29:13:
“And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.”
God, the one true God – the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God and Father of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah – He is always faithful according to His word.
May you who are reading this know His grace to help you go to Him this day ‘with all your heart.’ Ask! Seek! Knock! And then wait in faith for Almighty God to answer you.
Shalom.
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