Why do we look for God in all the wrong places? Too often we look for God inside ourselves. We look for God in our emotions and our own actions.
Sometimes we look for God in a place where it would seem logical--we look for God in church, but we often end up looking in the wrong churches; churches that do not point to God, but point to emotions and self.
So where do we find God? That's the wrong question. Where does God say He will be found? That's a better question. For with the first question it is a matter of what we do, but that's not how God works. He is always the initiator. The second question points to what God does. He is the seeker of us; He is the one who does the reconciling; He is the one who does the promising. God says He is present in Word and Sacrament. That is where He will be found.
Confirmation
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I always teach my acolytes the verse from Isaiah 55, "Seek the Lord where He may be found." (And so I was so jazzed when the COWboys asked me to write an antiphon on that for LSB!)
His Word is very near to us - and yet Old Adam and Old Eve look elsewhere......or don't seek him.
But, as the bumper says, "Wise Men Still Seek Him."
May we keep pointing people to the right place.
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