Have you ever wondered how a so-called ignorant heathen in darkest Africa finds the true God? It’s the same way a highly educated Wall Street hedge fund manager does.

God finds them … IF He detects an open heart, as explained in 2 Chronicles 16:9, “For the eyes of the Lord roam throughout the earth, so that He may strongly support those whose heart is completely His.”

There is a blasphemous notion about God that, although He originally created mankind, He has long since run off and hidden Himself.

Don’t you believe it. That would leave it up to us to seek Him unaided, a very unlikely proposition.

Of course, this also ignores the plain sense of scripture that it is in God’s nature to be the seeker of man, not the other way around, as written in Luke 19:10: “For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”

Think about it, would you do that to your children? Would you give birth to them and then run off and hide from them? Only a monster would do such a thing.

As Luke 15:3-5 says:

“And so, He (Jesus) told them this parable, saying, ’What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, does not leave the other ninety-nine in the open pasture and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it? And when he has found it, he puts it on his shoulders, rejoicing.’”

Grace Always Reaches Out

In my book, My Origin, My Destiny, I wrote: “Herein is that unimaginable power — God’s grace. In the face of open rebellion, God comes as a seeker of sinners to provide a refuge from what they had done within himself, the injured party! Why God sees such value in a sinner will be for eternity to reveal. Scripture is full of heartwarming stories of lost sons, lost coins, and lost sheep … Yes, God created man using his power. But to seek and to save men still in their lost estate and helpless, this is pure grace.

“Amazing grace. Those precious words, ‘Adam where are you?’ are still ringing through time and space to every one of us, as well. He is saying, ‘I’m here. I haven’t gone back to heaven and shut the door. I’m looking for you — however deep in sin you may be. I love you and cherish you. I will not rest until you are here with me. There is still hope for you. Come, let’s sit down and reason together.’”

No Excuses

In the Book of Romans, specifically Romans 1:19-20, the Apostle Paul lays out every human being’s individual culpability if they choose to persist in ignoring God’s promptings:

“… because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, that is, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, being understood by what has been made, so that they are without excuse.”

This tells us that we are surrounded by clear evidence of a Creator. Have you ever stopped and looked intently into the eye of a child, stared in awe through a telescope at the stars, seriously pondered the complexity of a single human cell? God says, “Case closed!”

Eternity in Our Hearts

In the Garden, God breathed His very own life into His hand-formed imager Adam. And He gave him a unique spirit with which Adam could directly communicate with His Creator.

Yes, Adam also was given a soul and body like the animals, but his spirit was unique to humans — it is our seat of God-consciousness, despite being marred by sin.

Scripture tells us in Ecclesiastes 3:11:

“He (God) has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart …”

Pastor David Guzik writes: “God made man in his own image; and nothing more surely attests to the greatness of our origin than those faculties of the soul which are capable of yearning for, conceiving, and enjoying the Infinite, the Immortal and the Divine … Every appetite in nature and grace has its appropriate satisfaction.”

Paul said in Acts 17:26-28: 

“He (God) made from one man (Adam) every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, that they would seek God, if perhaps they might feel around for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and exist …”

How About You?

In John 10:10-14, Jesus said, “I am the Good Shepherd. I know my own sheep and my own sheep know me. In the same way, the Father knows me and I know the Father. I put the sheep before myself, sacrificing myself if necessary.”

Have you responded to His gracious call to come home?

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