Prayer & Worship
I want to seek God with everything rather than fitting him around the edges of my life. Where does a person even begin with something like that?
“And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.”
The prophet Azariah meets King Asa coming back from battle with a message that has two edges: the LORD is with you while you are with him, and if you seek him he will be found of you. Asa's response was not a burst of feeling. He cleared out the idols and repaired the neglected altar. The chronicler shows seeking taking the form of decisions and removals rather than a mood.
“Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”
Paul writes this from custody, decades into his ministry, and says plainly that he has not arrived. His language is athletic: forgetting what lies behind, straining toward what is ahead, pressing toward the mark. The striking thing is that a man with his history still describes himself as in motion. Wholeheartedness here is a direction of travel rather than a level you reach and then hold.
A path forward
Choose one practice and hold it for six weeks rather than overhauling everything at once: ten minutes of Bible and prayer daily, or church every Sunday without exception. Depth comes from repetition, not from ambition.
Name one thing to remove as well as one thing to add. An hour of scrolling, a habit you know is corroding things, a commitment that has eaten your Sundays.
Ask one Christian further along than you to meet monthly for six months and tell them honestly how it is going. Almost nobody grows much on their own.
Closing verse
“When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.”
- Psalm 27:8
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