The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-08-27
OUR text introduces US to n of the
~ bright pages of Judah's history. II

of the heather nations about it,, They
delighted to indulge in all the licen-
tious pleasures of the heather worship.
They wanted to be like the nations about
them. They put worldliness before God
illness, the desires of the flesh before the
eternal needs of the soul. And the
result was that they knew not God. But
the Spirit of God, moving upon the
heart of the young king Asa, led him to
resolve to seek the Lord. What an in
fuence one life can exert! How one
determined soul can encourage and help
those who are weaker to choose the
right! An Asa in judah could lead q
nation toward God until it could be de-
clared: They sought the Lord with
their whole desire, and He was found
of them" And you and l can, by seek
ing God with all our hearts, not ~
find Him, but inspire others with the
same desire to find God and encourage
them to seek with the whole heart until
He is found of them.
ND to whom is He the Findable God!
~ Are there any who may not seek
and find? Verify, there are none, 1orGod
has declared that 'Whosoever Will may
come" He waits in the early morn for
the seeker after Him. He continues IN
His secret pavilion during the morning
toll and the nOon-tide heat and the after
moons u~nceasing activities. He watch
as during the darkening of the evening
hour. and He who keepeth His children
neither slumbers nor sleeps through the
long night. Ard always He waits tor
the soul that is seeking Him. He sees
him from afar; He hears the eager step
of hope as it pushes onward; He sees the
arm of faith outstretching to discover
the secret retreat of God. and as 1t
reaches higher and yet higher in its ca
g~erness to obtain. it feels the sure, I'M
failing clasp of the Divine arm. COO
has been found. He may always be
found by the seeking soul. He is the
Findable God to the sinner. No soul so
vile but that it may find God and be
cleansed from all it's guilt. No soul so
far down the pathway OF sin but that
it may find it's way back to God. Oh, how
God yearns to reveal Himself to the seek
ing sinner. The father of the prodigal
son rushed down to meet the returning
boy when he was yet a great way on, and
God always meets the seeking sinner
while he is yet struggling along the
halfway of repentance. No sin-sick SOU
ever turned from the old life to seek God
but that it found the blessed Christ at the
turn in the road ready to receive him and
lead him to God. And God is the Findable
God to the saint-the regenerate, the
saved soul. All, how often we have to
seek God. So frequently comes the
break in our fellowship with Him. So
prone are we to fill u lives and
thoughts with things earthly and forget
the things Heavenly. We get away
from God. And we must find Him again,
before we can know peace of mind and
Joy of soul. Judah seeking God with the
whole desire and finding Him is but a
faithful picture of how every soul may
seek and find its God.
GEEK the Lord! But how? In prayer.
> God cannot be found out in the busy
rush of business, out in the mad whir!
of pleasure, when the heart is all CEN
tered in it's own affairs and its W pur-
suits. but God can be found as the stu,
withdraws itself to it's closet and theirs
communes with God alone. David says:
envy SOU waiteth in silence for God
ONLY" The silence of the hour alone in
earnest seeking after God brings the soul
irto His blessed presence. We must
seek God in a It is the vital air OF
the Christians life. God is lost because
prayer is neglected. God may be found
through seeking Him in prayer. And
again. we must seek Him by a surren'
6ered will. The self-willed, rebellious
heart never can gain the presence OF
God. He shuts Himself away from such,
and leaves them to plunge on in the peril
of their own w%ilIfulness. But the sur
render of the will is not all. There must
be Misunderstanding God blythe path
way of obedience. Do not think you are
truly seeking God if you are refusing to
obey His commandment. Behold Ju-
dab as they seek the Lord with their
whole desired 1t was a busy nation
busy in obeying God. The idols were
broken down, the false affairs removed,
the high places destroyed. 1t was a ma
ton in obedience seeking God. Jesus de-
~clares: eff a mar love Me, he will keep
MY Word; and My Father will love him;
and We will come unto him and make
Our abode with him." Obedience, keep.
ing Gods Word, will bring into the
presence of the Father and the Son
What is 1t in your life that is keeping
J you from finding your way back to God:
A Within your Utmost heart you know
what it is that has shut God away as
conscious presence in your life. Give J. il
{ up! Obey Him and God will be found
of you, and peace and joy Will come to
l your heart and life. judah sought and
, found the Lord, and then Scripture goes
on to declare that Jehovah gave them
rest round about" It is always so. The
{ soul that has found God has found thai
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