The Answer

I have noticed in my daily walk, the answer that I am searching for is right in front of me. It is like looking for my lost keys, they could be right in front of me, but because I have allowed the frustrations to get into the way, I don't see them. I know I have looked in the same spot for the keys that I actually found them in, but I didn't see them when I was all frustrated, upset and just irritated. Do you think the answers that we seek are much like the keys?

Jesus said in Matthew 7:7 ""Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you." If I have knocked and I can't seem to hear that answer, maybe it is time to rest, sit at the feet of Jesus and say Lord what are you trying to show me, because He promised an answer. Our human selves seem to think that answer will be huge, but maybe it is just Jesus saying rest and know that I am God, I will make a way, but in my timing. He wants to teach us patience and to trust completely in Him, not in our human selves.

Are you seeking an answer? Have you searched everywhere, but not found it? Are you frustrated and angry that they answer isn't where you thought it would be? Well, rest and know that God is God and He says that He is the answer. The questions to ask yourself?
Am I following what God has taught in His word to do?
Have I searched the word for the answer that I am seeking? (Because if you want to hear God, maybe it is time to open up His book, the Bible).
Am I putting myself before God?

As a Christian, God calls me to seek Him, to look to Him for direction, to allow Him to lead the way, to thank Him in all things, to praise Him even in the storms. He calls me to pray without ceasing, to seek Him in all I do and say. I could go through life as a Christian only doing a percent of this, but wouldn't that leave me with doing life on my own. Yes God will be with me, but could you imagine how much more He will be with me, if I do what He calls me to do. I remember a scripture that talks about this in 2 Timothy 3:1-5 "But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive,disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people."

I think that verse sums it up. We are to use what God has given us, because that is why He wrote the Bible, it says in 2 Timothy 3:16 "All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness," Isn't it time to seek God first, let Him lead, because He is the only way.

Where are you struggling? Have you followed what God/Bible teaches you to do? If not isn't it time Matthew 6:33 "But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well."