When we do not fully know someone, it’s easy to take what they say or do out of context. In order to aquire authentic understanding of someone’s words and actions, it requires the expenditure of time to gain knowledge of context, history, and as well as the forgoing of second hand information in exchange for first hand experience with this person to know their true character. Eliminate any one of these, and your perspective and understanding becomes skewed.
Likewise with God, if we forgo a first hand experience and relationship with Him, overlook context or history surrounding what He has said or done, we will gain a very skewed perspective of His character, and therefore lack true understanding of what He is trying to say and do today.
With out all of these elements in place, we will certainly fall prey to confusion. I have personally experienced this when I have lacked having the whole picture of who God is or when I have failed to seek Him wholeheartedly.
When we seek Him, we will find Him when we seek Him with all of our hearts- meaning God longs for us to know Him. God is worthy of our efforts to know Him rightly, especially during times of uncertainty and difficulty, but inorder to have this authentic understanding, we must have all the pieces in place, and it must be gained from first hand experience with our true, and living God!
” If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me.” Jeremiah 29:13
Highlighting the hope that we have in Christ! 