“I have been found by those who did not seek me; I have shown myself to those who did not ask for me.” – Romans 10:20
Here in this verse, God declares that He revealed Himself to those
who were not even seeking or asking for Him. That is something to really
think about.
Who was this group that God revealed Himself to?
Well, we might think it is some distant African tribe or all of the
many atheists who at one time professed that there was no God at all.
However, the startling biblical answer to the question is that its all
of those who have come to have faith in Christ.
Romans 3:11 says “no one seeks for God.” Literally the text reads, “there is no God seeker.”
We tend to be blind to this truth, especially when we might have
heard numerous testimonies of (now) Christian people who say they were
seeking for God all their lives – seeking Him in many different
spiritual experiences, even through searching out many different
religions.
While it is certainly true that these people sought many different
experiences and were involved in other religions, what the Bible teaches
is that none of us by nature wish to know the God of the Bible. We are
born DOA (dead on arrival) spiritually speaking, yet we walk a course
mapped out for us by the Prince of darkness. We are by nature children
of wrath rather than children of God and unless God intervenes, we will
never seek to know the one true God. That is the clear teaching of the
opening verses of Ephesians chapter 2. All our religious “searchings”
are really attempts to run and hide from Him. Like Adam in the garden of
Eden after he had sinned, He hid from the presence of the Lord. That is
our inner disposition towards God until God moves upon the heart and
draws us to Himself. Before that we might want all the trappings of what
a relationship with God brings – forgiveness, freedom from a guilty
conscience, feelings of happiness and assurance, peace within; but we
just dont want to go to God to get these things. We often mistake a
desire for these things as a desire for God. Keep Reading...
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