Seek and Find

Seek, and ye shall find.

I have contact lenses, the hard, old fashioned kind. Over a 35+ year period, I’ve dropped quite a few. But I’ve only lost 5 or 6. I have dropped, and found, a dropped contact in a radiator unit, a parking lot and the luggage compartment of a greyhound bus. I’ve found one in my hair (when it was long), in a shirt pocket (how did it get there?), and the floor (because I heard it hit).

Why are some people successful in finding things (the passage to India, the North Pole, the source of the Nile), and others are not? The obvious answer is that some people just looked harder, persisted longer, than others. But why? Why do some people spend so much time and effort looking for something that seems so uncertain to the rest of us?

When you know that something is there, and you know that you just have to persist until it is uncovered, you will find what you look for. People who are certain that there is no God rarely find Him. People who believe that the Bible is myths will not find the Truth in it. People who know that there is a God, and that He cares for and has provided for us, will search until He is found.