“With my whole heart have I sought Thee: O let me not wander from Thy commandments” (Psalm 119:10 KJV).
“I seek You with all my heart; do not let me stray from Your commands” (Psalm 119:10 NIV).
In modern times, we have a great sense of acceptability, when we approach life scientifically, which seems to account for much of human progress. But, the multiplicity of philosophical and human traditions, representing various gods, no gods, or variations of one god, indicate a difference of opinion of how to seek for the highest good for humanity’s existence.
The Psalmist represents the seeking of God with the “whole heart” (119:10 KJV) or “all my heart” (119:10 NIV), as the means for seeking for the highest good for humanity’s existence.
The question of our concern is, What is seeking God with all your heart?
We immediately set aside any question of half hearted seeking, since Jesus eliminated that possibility. “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon [literally, riches, material wealth]” (Matthew 6:24 KJV).
We are inescapably logical, for our mind shows us the relationship of cause and effect. Once our circumstances allow for the possibility of God, then logic serves us as effectively as it would for any human tradition. “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap” (Galatians 6:7).
Seeking God with all your heart is allowing God to grant you explanations not provided by the world.
Seeking the Living God steers us away from dead explanations, even when some label them as science. “Why seek ye the living among the dead?” (Luke 24:5). God’s explanation is always a firm foundation. “Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of Mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock” (Matthew 7:24-25).
Seeking God with all your heart is allowing the Holy Spirit to teach us what we could not learn otherwise.
We can never “grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ” (2Peter 3:18), much less learn about Christ’s sufficiency for all things pertaining to “life and godliness” (1:3) without the Spirit of God teaching us. “Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth: for He shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He speak: and He will shew you things to come” (John 16:13).
Seeking God with all your heart is allowing the Holy Spirit to suggest novel solutions to problems, which still of course, conform to His Word.
“And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them” (Isaiah 42:16). Here, blindness is an admission on our part that we have not known the Spirit’s leading in this situation before this point. Blindness is our insufficiency to find our way, and His leading is the way of the Good Shepherd (Psalm 23). Plead our insufficiency and His goodness.
Seeking God with all your heart is allowing the Holy Spirit to suggest interpretations of Scripture, not before understood.
After the Resurrection, two of Jesus’ disciples were on the Road to Emmaus discussing His death and now His reported empty tomb (Luke 24:12). Jesus was already making good on His promise, “For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them” (Matthew 18:20). Jesus was anticipating their questions and providing their answer. “And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear” (Isaiah 65:24). Their understanding or interpretation of already known Scripture was radically changed. “Then He said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into His glory? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, He expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning Himself” (Luke 24:25-27).
Seeking God with all your heart means solving any problem of life, regardless of how unsolvable it may appear.
“And ye shall seek Me, and find Me, when ye shall search for Me with all your heart” (Jeremiah 29:13). If seeking God with all your heart sounds like God seeking us with all His heart, it is because He is (John 3:16). “According as His divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him that hath called us to glory and virtue” (2Peter 1:3). All things pertaining to life and godliness for any conceivable problem of anything, anywhere, anytime means God is seeking us with His whole heart.
How can we rationalize seeking God with anything less than He is seeking us?
Father, we praise You for giving us Your Son, Your Spirit, and everything else we need for life and godliness. We ask that You would work in us that we would seek You as wholeheartedly as You seek us. May Your will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven. Lord Jesus, return quickly. In Your Name, we pray. Amen.
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