Time to Seek Jehovah
Minister: | Rev. Ronald Van Overloop |
Date: | 8/3/2014 PM |
Text: | Hosea 10:12 |
Psalters: | 92, 72, 188, 289 |
Preparatory to the Lord's Supper |
- Figure of a farmer’s fields left uncultivated and the ground is hard so the rains run off and do not soak in. Cannot produce.
- Each part of a child of God is to be cultivated and nurtured by faith or it becomes hard and weedy.
- What this is.
- To “seek” is to inquire about something so often that a path is formed by our repeatedly tramping.
- It describes the activity of maintaining continued fellowship with God.
- The heart of this necessity is that our soul must come into His arms, as the father received the prodigal son.
- Seek because of where we are and not to where God is (as if He is hidden).
- Negative implications.
- Seek Jehovah through His dear Son.
- We will never find Jehovah till we seek Him by way of Jesus Christ.
- Seek Him by asking Him to wash me of my sin and sinfulness and to change us within and without.
- To “seek” is to inquire about something so often that a path is formed by our repeatedly tramping.
- When is it time to seek Jehovah?
- We seek Him by hungering and thirsting after His righteousness.
- We keep learning that we have none of our own, and that what we think is righteousness is really filthy rags.
- Seek Him when the truth of His Word is read or you are being pricked by the preaching of His Word.
- Special occasions in which this call to seek Him is especially appropriate.
- The context: chastening hand of God on the remnant of Judah living amidst the desolations of Jerusalem.
- Whenever we feel His rod or His bit and bridle.
- In all of our life.
- Seek him when young, for God promises that those who seek Him early shall find Him (Proverbs 8:17).
- Seek Him late in life, especially when facing eternity.
- We seek Him by hungering and thirsting after His righteousness.
- How long? “Till He rain righteousness.”
- Righteousness rains down.
- Assurance that God, for Jesus’ sake, has forgiven me wholly and forever.
- Peace which results from being justified by God (the publican went home justified).
- Seek Him till you find Him. Find Jehovah Himself or else go on seeking.
- If all we say is, “God, be merciful to me the sinner,” keep praying.
- Or if all you can cry is, “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief,” pray on and on.
- Elijah sought Him with cries and tears, praying for rain, sending Gehazi seven times.
- Righteousness rains down.