| “But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.” |
| —Deuteronomy 4:29 |
Some individuals have unique problem-solving skills. No matter what mess these individuals get themselves into, through some miraculous use of whatever that person finds at hand, he or she will get out of the mess and bring the matter to a satisfactory conclusion.
I find it fascinating to note that, in our spiritual lives, each of us has had some moment—either in split second of time, or over a very long, gradual period of time—where we could say:
“But if from there …”
In declaring words of instruction to God’s chosen people, the Jews, Moses writes the following in Deuteronomy 4:25-31:
After you have had children and grandchildren and have lived in the land a long time—if you then become corrupt and make any kind of idol, doing evil in the eyes of the Lord your God and arousing his anger, I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live there long but will certainly be destroyed.
The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the Lord will drive you. There you will worship man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.
But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul. When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the Lord your God and obey him. For the Lord your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon or destroy you or forget the covenant with your ancestors, which he confirmed to them by oath.
As we begin a new day, we must remember that no matter what mess we may get ourselves into, we do not need to use special skills to create a way out of that mess. Rather, we simply need to turn about face and seek the Lord our God. If we seek Him, we will surely find Him. Therefore, we must continually seek Him with all four of our human modalities: our hearts, souls, minds, and strength, and we must love Him with every possible kind of devotion.
