God Seeker? 

Are you a God Seeker? 

I am not referring to what some call a life and practice of ‘spiritual formation’.

I am not referring to the study and practice of ‘mental and mind healing powers’.

Rather, I simply mean in very simple terms – Do you seek God to give meaning, to enrich, to strengthen you in your life’s journey?

I suppose I became a seeker from at a time of my first remembrances as a pre-schooler in Tiny Tot Sabbath School.  I remember rushing to the felt board to place my white cutout felt angel on the large blue felt board.  Even then I had a simple child’s understanding that there is a love that means to protect me.  I suppose through each developmental stage of life I continued to be inawe of a God that is love – even when some of those stages might have been ruff and rocky.

Even today as an older adult I still am in awe of the meaning behind my felt angel.

I truly believe that there is a thirst in every person to seek meaning, comfort and love.

Searching for the water - the Water of Life;   John 4:1-42

Eagerly searching;   Psalm 119:10, Philippians 4:8, Deuteronomy 4:29, Matthew 6:33

Engage in worship with others and have personal time of study, reading, prayer and meditation;

   Psalm 95:6, Psalm 132:7, Matthew 6:6

Keep searching;   Psalm 32:8, Psalm 14:2, Hebrews 11:6, Proverbs 8:17

Each day reflect on a promise of God:    Isaiah 26:3, John 14:27, Psalm 32:8

Reaching out to God-He will take your hand;   Psalm 27:1, 1Chronicles 16:11-22, Psalm 78:7 

Have a wonderful seeking journey,

Sincerely,

A Fellow Seeker  

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The Deception And Fall of Man

Gen 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? 

To accomplish his work unperceived, Satan chose to employ as his medium the serpent—a disguise well adapted for his purpose of deception. The serpent was then one of the wisest and most beautiful creatures on the earth. It had wings and, while flying through the air, presented an appearance of dazzling brightness, having the color and brilliance of burnished gold. Resting in the rich-laden branches of the forbidden tree and regaling itself with the delicious fruit, it was an object to arrest the attention and delight the eye of the beholder. Thus, in the garden of peace lurked the destroyer, watching for his prey.

No longer free to stir up rebellion in heaven, Satan's enmity against God found a new field in plotting the ruin of the human race. In the happiness and peace of the holy pair in Eden he beheld a vision of the bliss that to him was forever lost. Moved by envy, he determined to incite them to disobedience, and bring upon them the guilt and penalty of sin. He would change their love to distrust and their songs of praise to reproaches against their Maker. Thus he would not only plunge these innocent beings into the same misery which he was himself enduring, but would cast dishonor upon God, and cause grief in heaven.

Our first parents were not left without a warning of the danger that threatened them. Heavenly messengers opened to them the history of Satan's fall and his plots for their destruction, unfolding more fully the nature of the divine government, which the prince of evil was trying to overthrow. It was by disobedience to the just commands of God that Satan and his host had fallen. How important, then, that Adam and Eve should honor that law by which alone it was possible for order and equity to be maintained.

The Garden of Eden remained upon the earth long after man had become an outcast from its pleasant paths. The fallen race were long permitted to gaze upon the home of innocence, their entrance barred only by the watching angels. At the cherubim-guarded gate of Paradise the divine glory was revealed. Hither came Adam and his sons to worship God. Here they renewed their vows of obedience to that law the transgression of which had banished them from Eden. When the tide of iniquity overspread the world, and the wickedness of men determined their destruction by a flood of waters, the hand that had planted Eden withdrew it from the earth. But in the final restitution, when there shall be "a new heaven and a new earth" (Revelation 21:1), it is to be restored more gloriously adorned than at the beginning.

Then they that have kept God's commandments shall breathe in immortal vigor beneath the tree of life; and through unending ages the inhabitants of sinless worlds shall behold, in that garden of delight, a sample of the perfect work of God's creation, untouched by the curse of sin—a sample of what the whole earth would have become, had man but fulfilled the Creator's glorious plan.

Excerpt: By Ellen White, The Story of Patriarchs and Prophets

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