Devotional Guide for Lent 2019

Ash Wednesday

March 6, 2019
The Seekers: God and Man

“And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind; for the Lord searches all hearts, and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.” I Chronicles 28:9

David, wizened in his old age, has learned that the task of building the temple will fall to his son, Solomon.

God, says David, understands us and knows our hearts and plans. If our hearts are sincere, serious about our desire to know God, he will allow us to find him. He will “be found” by us – passive voice! In our earnest searching, God supernaturally show us where to look and how to find!

This reminds me of human parents playing hide and seek with their small children. The children look in all the wrong places, but we parents carefully place ourselves where we know they will look and then act surprised and pleased to be found!

So it is with God. He wants us to find him – to have fellowship with him – to talk to him – to listen to him – to learn from him. He allows himself to be somewhere that he knows we will look. We feel so clever but he planned it all along!

Prayer: Father, we thank you for being a good father who lets your children find you. We praise you for Easter – the perfect time to find you! Amen.

“I am the resurrection and the life.” John 11:25
Lenten Devotional Guide
prepared for Homosassa United Methodist Church, Spring 2009
by Patience Nave, Christian Education Director