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Seek and you shall find. Matthew 7:7 Paul was a seeker and a finder and a seeker still. A.W. Tozer Matthew 7:7 is a promise, and the apostle Paul is an example of how the reception of that promise was lived out in a life. To what degree do we, who say we are Christ's, believe and live out this promise as well? I think too many of us never take it much beyond our "finding" of Jesus Christ and His salvation that He invites us to. We don't think too deeply about it all. We're happy to call ourselves "saved," and we try to live a good Christian life, but somehow, our seeking hearts grow dull and our "finding" of all the riches that are in Him never advances much beyond this initial stage. We live in spiritual poverty but are unaware of this because we've become so enamored of the treasures of this world, which aren't treasure at all, but snares. Tozer said that Paul sought, and Paul found, and Paul continued to seek more. Ever more. More of Him. More of His Life and Light. More of His knowledge. More of the endless riches that He calls us to. Paul lived with a seeking heart. His experience was that Jesus Christ satisfies, but He was never satisfied to stay at any one level. He never gave up His seeking. I believe His seeking goes on even now in eternity. His endless riches are always before us, and the more we lay hold of, the more we want, or should. The more satisfaction in Him that we lay hold of, the more and ever deeper satisfaction to be found in Him is laid before us. I will be 76 years old next month. I have been a seeker after Him since the day I first came to Him. I still am, but the temptation to "take my rest" is always there. The temptation to do so is always tempting, and the reasons the enemy suggests that I do so always seem to make sense, but it's a snare. If the devil can't destroy us, He will always seek to draw us away from Him. Our greatest defense will always be to never leave off in our seeking. My life has been an adventure in Him, but it hasn't always seemed so. I expect that your adventure has seemed so as well. Yet I know that for me, and for you, the greatest adventures still lay before us. His best is always yet to come, and it will come throughout eternity. Let us press on my friends. Let us always be seeking and finding and seeking more. More of Him. Always more of Him. Blessings, Pastor O