“God is in the Seeking”
“Those who know your name trust in you,
for you, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek you.” (Psalm 9:10, New International Version)
One of the many things I love about the Bible is how it contradicts itself.
Now that I have your attention, let me explain. I’m not sure that it is a matter of the Bible contradicting itself. It is more a matter of the Bible contradicting our usual notions of logic.
Take the second line of Psalm 9:10, for example. The psalmist affirms that the LORD hasn’t forsaken those who seek him. What?! Wait! Say that one more time! . . . Now say it again!
If the LORD hasn’t forsaken us, why do we need to search for him? And if we are seeking God, doesn’t that suggest that he is not with us right here, right now? You see what I mean, don’t you?
And yet, it is a wonderful image isn’t it? Not logical perhaps, but wonderfully refreshing: a God who accompanies us, even as we seek him. Now that is the kind of God a body would want! And that, according to the psalmist is precisely the kind of God we have!
Keep seeking God, dear believer—or unbeliever! He is with you in your questing and in your questioning. He will not abandon you until you’ve found him. He won’t abandon you then, either.
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