Day 13 of 21-Day Sugar Fast
Are you looking for something or Someone? Have you ever searched your home looking for a particular item and you can’t find it? We frantically search looking for that something we need. Panic can set it too, when we can’t find it. And in our anxiety-filled search, we realize we need someone to help us.
The night before my son’s wedding, he realized his passport was missing. Now, for those of us who are married, we know we already have enough jitters inside of us the day before we make our life vows to another person. We don’t need more jitters than that alone. So, to pile on a missing passport brought all kinds of fear and anxiety to my son.
Beside himself with worry, he searched high and low in his bedroom. He search by dumping containers, pulling his bed apart, pulling furniture away from walls, and checking pockets. He couldn’t find it.
After all his searching alone, he finally approached me and explained the situation. The passport had been in his bedroom the day before. He needed that passport to go on his honeymoon. Now it was missing. Would I help him?
Are You Looking for Something or Someone?
In my 21-Day Sugar Fast, I’ve been searching for both something and Someone. But mostly, my desire longs for the Someone. My desire to reconnect with Jesus during these twenty-one days is the most fulfilling part of this journey.
What are you searching for when you read the Bible, pray, or fast? Are you searching for something or Someone?
I want you to know the God I know. But there’s one way for that to happen. You need to seek Him yourself. You need to cry out for help yourself. When you read your Bible, search for Him. When you pray, listen for Him. Don’t just keep seeking for something, seek Someone.
Jesus is the Someone we are searching for to fulfill all the somethings in our life. It’s not a thing we need, it’s a person.
So, are you looking for something or Someone? Maybe you’ve not thought about this before, but the God I know wants you to seek and find Him. In fact, He desires for you to find Him and to get to know Him. He wants to help you.
“Then you will call, and the Lord will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I.” Isaiah 58:9 (NIV)
Search for Jesus in His Word and you will find Him. Search for Him in your prayers He’s who you are talking to anyway. Call out to this Someone. And when you call out to Him, He will say, “Here am I.” Just like my son called out for help to me, his parent, and I immediately responded and said, “I’m here to help you,” so our God, Jesus Himself, will do the same.
Seek Jesus for Help with the Somethings
Reassuring my son, I acted. First, we prayed to the Someone we knew could really help us find the missing passport: Jesus Himself.
Now, I knew my husband exercised in our son’s room that day, so I asked if he remembered where he may have moved Zack’s stuff that had been sitting on the workout bench. Unfortunately, he couldn’t remember moving the passport. Panic set in again! It could be anywhere.
This required all hands on deck searching. Our whole family kicked it into gear and searched our entire home looking for that passport, that thing that was needed. During the entire search I kept seeking Jesus for direction. Within a short time, we found the passport.
Why the passport ended up in a plastic container under our daughter’s bed, no one knows. But in this search for the passport, we discovered how much the people in our family care about one other. We found a family willing to stop what they were doing to help another family member because we love him. That’s exactly how Jesus works.
He loves us. When we call out to Him for help, He always responds, “Here am I.”
Are you looking for something or Someone?
When you read the Bible, are you looking for something or Someone? We may turn to the Bible looking for something, but we really need to search for the Someone. When we do, we will meet the One who can fill our every need: Jesus Christ, Savior and Lord, the One who will say, “Here am I.”
Leave a Reply