Miss Kate just put up the word prompt for this week. It’s the word Search. Come join us… it’s five minutes of free writing and then another couple in offering encouragement to others. It’s a good thing. 🙂
Anyways, I saw the word search and I thought hmm… can I make a poem out of this word? I’d like to, but honestly my brain is too tired tonight for that.
I then got to thinking about how God has been impressing on my mind the need to search for him, that searching for him always bears fruit. That thought led to this scripture.
Matthew 7:7-8
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.
That of course then led to me thinking about how we seek for, we search for God, it doesn’t come back empty. But as we get to know him, we NEED to be aware that he gets to know us too.
Psalm 139:1-4
O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
you discern my thoughts from afar.
3 You search out my path and my lying down
and are acquainted with all my ways.
4 Even before a word is on my tongue,
behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
Then I got to thinking about how God knows his people and he knows the enemies of his people and sometimes he takes action. Action where he actively searches out those enemies and puts an end to them.
Jeremiah 16:16-18
16 “Behold, I am sending for many fishers, declares the Lord, and they shall catch them. And afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks. 17 For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from me, nor is their iniquity concealed from my eyes. 18 But first I will doubly repay their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.”
The Bible is full of the Lord being sought, the Lord seeking, and the Lord searching out our hearts. It’s good to remember it you know?
Andrew Budek-Schmeisser says
Love where you took this, Annette.
And for what it’s worth, a sonnet.
I was lost, so far gone,
I might as well have died.
And if you asked me who I was,
I would have surely lied.
But Someone went in search of me,
Someone with patient heart.
I don’t know how, but He could see
that His Love set me apart.
I was the lost sheep for which
He left the ninety-nine alone.
He found me in a sewer-ditch,
and carried me to His Throne.
He saved me when my hope was slim;
how can I but live for Him?
Annette1 says
Definitely… God’s patience is simply amazing isn’t it? Blows me away and draws me in closer.
Lesley says
I love how so much can come from a single word with the FMF prompts. I hadn’t thought until now about all the different ways searching come up in the Bible. I quoted Psalm 139 too, but a different part.
Annette1 says
I think that is one of the things I love most about FMF, all the different interpretations of the same word. 🙂
Wendy L Macdonald says
Thank you, dear Annette, for reminding us we are always rewarded for seeking God. May we continue to seek His leading each day.
Blessings ~ Wendy Mac
Annette1 says
You are most welcome Miss Wendy. Important for us to remember isn’t it?
Lori says
The fact the He will search for His own is comforting. You did a nice job with this prompt and taking a look at “search” in the Bible.
Annette1 says
thank you, I love that God searches for us, even as we seek him out. 🙂