“I never hear from God!” “I don’t understand the Bible!” “I don’t get anything out of church or the sermon!” “I am spiritually dry!”

 

These are common complaints within the American church, and these may be common complaints by you as well. Did you ever stop to consider why? Most often people begin to blame others or the situation around them. The pastor is boring. The church is dull. The Bible is difficult to read.

 

Have you ever considered that you are getting nothing because you have invested nothing? Are you passively sitting around waiting for God to come to you and fill you? What if I told you that the spiritual equivalent of being a couch potato is not the Biblical answer? We are to be spiritually active to seek the overflowing fountain of spiritual renewal. How? By actively seeking the Lord.

 

But from there you will seek the LORD your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

(Deuteronomy 4:29 ESV)

 

The young lions suffer want and hunger;
but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
(Psalm 34:10 ESV)

 

Seek the LORD while he may be found;
call upon him while he is near

(Isaiah 55:6 ESV)

 

The Bible tells us 31 times to seek the Lord, and God says 18 times to seek him. I think that is pretty important. If you want spiritual vitality, don’t wait for it to just happen, don’t expect your church or pastor or Life Group leader to do it for you. Seek the Lord with everything you have, and then see how your life completely changes.