Although God takes the initiative I our walk with Him, He does call upon us to seek for Him. There is something about our seeking, and pursuing, that God is pleased to honor.
But what might catch us by surprise is that we need to seek Him, even when we are in the sanctuary. It would seem a given that that was one place His presence would be obvious. Yet it is possible to be in the midst of God’s holy sanctuary, surrounded by saints, listening to God’s word, and yet miss God. We can do this in a plethora of ways.
At times we enter God’s house with a heart that is distracted or filled with sin. As a result, we do not see God. At other times we fail to prepare ourselves before we come to God’s house, so we miss what God is doing. We may also be distracted by the people around us, or the sermon being preached, or the music being sung so that we miss the God who is present. There are any number of ways in which we can miss seeing God, even though we have entered into His holy place.
That is why we need to always have a seeking heart. Whether it is in our quiet time or at church on Sunday, do we have a heart that is seeking after God? When we have a heart that is continually pursuing God, there is nowhere we can find ourselves where we cannot see God.