Pastor Daniel spoke about God being personal and therefore we should seek Him. Ever since modernism and Enlightenment, a heavy emphasis was placed on the mind and intellect. That is why apologetics was big a few decades ago because it was important to defend the faith and persuade people with rational arguments. This shift caused a diminishing sense that God is personal. Instead of seeing God as personal, we think of Christian life as a system of beliefs that we need to accept mentally.
God is personal. God is love and love is an extremely personal language. The Bible is filled with references of God’s emotions, his jealousy, God feeling hurt and rejected by His people.
Ever since the Fall of Man, God has been pursuing us. He asks Adam, where are you and that question reverberates throughout human history. Jesus’ ministry can be summed up as Him being sent to seek the lost. Seeking is another way of saying, where are you? This is the language of love.
Love seeks the other person’s heart. Moses in Exodus 32 says, if God does not go with me, I will not go. Lord, I want to see your glory. David is considered a man after God’s heart. In Psalm 63 he asks God to search his heart. In other words, he is inviting God to know and love him.
We need to seek God, not using God as a means toward something else. Everything but God can become an idol and lead to bondage, even good things like vision or purpose or calling. An idol binds us because it cannot reciprocate love. God’s love is bonding because he is personal and He can love us back.
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