A LETTER TO A RARE SEEKER

 

 

I appreciate your openness to dialogue with me—a rarity today.

 

I also can understand your disappointment with not finding that sustaining relationship with Jesus. I too had been searching for God for years but had never asked that the truth be revealed to me. I just wanted God in my own way—according to my Jewish traditions and identity! Consequently, I wasn’t finding. Finally, I gave up trying to “find.”

It was only as I was bleeding to death that Jesus revealed Himself to me. But you don’t have to be bleeding to death to find Jesus. Instead, He promises:

·       Matthew 7:7–8 “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 the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.”

 

·       John 6:40 “For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

 

But how to believe if you cannot? Jesus has made it easy:

·       John 7:17 “If anyone’s will is to do God’s will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority.”

 

If want to serve God, He will clear the way for you to believe! Once you believe, He will confirm it for you, but He aids those who are seeking the truth. Therefore, commit yourself to finding the truth, and you will find:

 

·       Revelation 3:20 “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.”

 

From my perspective, you seem to be very close. SUGGESTION: Do you know anyone who loves the Lord according to the Bible? Ask to go to church with them.

Why according to the Bible? It is God’s prerogative to set the terms of salvation—Believing in His Good News (the Gospel)! Why? The Gospel conveys many essential truths that He wants us to understand:

1.     We are sinners whose only hope is in the Savior Jesus.

2.     Our sins have separated us from our righteous Creator.

3.     It’s purely by the mercy of God that we are forgiven and saved.

4.     Jesus dying for us on the cross demonstrates, as nothing else could, the love of God for us.

5.     It also demonstrates the righteousness of His divine nature. Sin, therefore, must be punished. And it was punished through Jesus taking the sins upon Himself and dying for them.

6.     This demonstrates God’s hatred of sin that only His death could possibly pay the price.

 

There is probably much here that you will find difficult to accept, at least for now. Why? These are truths that come from above, from the mind of God, something foreign to us. Therefore, we need His help to accept them and then to understand them.

Truth is central to God as Jesus had taught:

·       John 4:23–24 “But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

 

Therefore, God wants to be loved for who He truly is and not for who we want Him to be. No surprise—We too want to be loved for who we truly are.