Created to Seek God

Created to

Seek God

By Lloyd Owusu Appiah

CREATED TO SEEK GOD

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Table of content

Acknowledgement

Chapter One - God's Testimony

Chapter Two - Embrace God's Love

Chapter Three - Destination?

Chapter Four - Turns

Chapter Five - But Where Can Wisdom Be Found

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

To my family and friends from whom I have learnt so much, and to all readers of this book I pray that

God will communicate through this book

to you personally and reveal himself to you.

CHAPTER ONE

GOD’S TESTIMONY

I read a story in a sermon about a young minister who came to a village town to be the pastor. In that village, there was a man who was a skeptic, a scorner and an agnostic. His favorite sport was baiting preachers, teasing preachers, arguing with preachers and ridiculing the gospel. He could hardly wait till the new minister came to town. One day they met in the town square. This man whose name was Burt Olney, met the new minister and said to him, I understand you’re the new minister in town. Is that correct? The minister said, Yes sir, I am. He said, Well I want to tell you something, my name is Burt Olney, and I don’t believe in God. I don’t believe the bible is the word of God. I believe that heaven is mere sentimentality. To believe in hell is a blunder and foolishness. I believe that you’re a pious fraud and an imposter, and I believe that all of the people who go there to hear you preach are hypocrites. The young minister looked at him and quoted a verse of scripture. He said, It is appointed unto man once to die, and after this the judgment. Olney said, Don’t quote the bible to me. He said, I don’t believe the bible. What do you say to that?" The young minister said, It is appointed unto man once to die, and after this the judgment. Olney said, that’s no argument, don’t give me that, I said I don’t believe that. He said, "It is appointed unto man once to die, and after this the judgment. Olney said, That’s stupid! I don’t think you know enough to argue." The minister said again, It is appointed unto man once to die, after this the judgment. It so infuriated Burt Olney that he turned and walked away in disgust. But later on Burt Olney gave a testimony. He said, "As I walked home that night, I walked over the bridge, and as the creek was beneath me, the frogs in that creek were saying, Judgment, Judgment, Judgment. And what that minister said- ‘It is appointed unto man once to die, and after this the judgment’- so reverberated through my soul that I could not get it out of my heart and my mind until I gave my life to Jesus Christ."

Have you ever looked at the trees, the stars, the sun, the moon, the sky, your structure and asked yourself, Where did it all come from? Why does all this exist? Is it possible to know the truth about life and the reason we all exist? Unfortunately, many people don’t believe that it’s possible to know the truth about why we are here and the meaning of life. Some say that they are absolutely sure that there is no God and that Jesus could not have been the Son of God. That reminds me of a question or questions God asked Job in Job 38:4-5, Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it? I just love the questions God asked Job, Where is? Have you seen? Have you ever given orders to? Who provides for? etc. We seem to know a lot for people who haven’t travelled to the ends of the universe. We often ask, Is there life after death? That is one question many people ask without expecting a convincing answer. Some say, No there isn’t! Others say, There can’t be! Those are very confident answers. As if they had been told by someone who died and somehow screamed out to them, There’s nothing here! God asked Job, Have the gates of death been shown to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death? (Job 38:17) Well, then again, that was a very long time ago. Now we seem to have found all those answers in experiments and over the internet. These days, to avoid the talk about Jesus and there being a creator of the universe, you just have to say, I don’t know or It doesn’t matter whether there is life after death or there is a God, it’s not our fault that we do not believe. Well, if we don’t know whether there is a God or not, why don’t we seek him. Being indifferent is just telling God, I don’t really believe you exist but if you do I don’t care enough to waste my time seeking you. Jesus said, This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. (John 3:19) Most of us believe that we are not that bad and that God has no right to send us to hell for such petty crimes. I wonder, What is a petty crime? Before I gave my life to Jesus and accepted him as Lord and Savior, I thought I was a Petty criminal, that my actions weren’t that bad. I went to Church and all but I never took the time to cry out to God. The truth is you can never know the truth about sin when you reject God and when you reject Jesus. Jesus is humanity’s light and savior. The thing about sin is that those who are deeper in it seem to know less about it. Whose fault is it that we do not believe God’s testimony? It is our choice to reject God’s Son who gave his life as a ransom for all men, God’s testimony and his truth. That Jesus died as a ransom for all men is not only proof of how much God loves us, but also proof of how much God hates sin. Being indifferent towards the things of God is the same as rejecting God. Do we care enough to seek him wholeheartedly? Sin is an affront against God, thus God is the only one who can forgive sin. How was God to forgive the sinner who he loves and yet punish sin? The answer is Christ Jesus who died in our stead. Jesus is the one who brings us to God.

The Brilliant Architect:

If you ended up on an island which you believed to be deserted and saw a huge mansion with a living room, bathroom, food, a refrigerator, a bed and all the basic necessities we as humans need to survive and live comfortably, would it be right for you to say that the house was not built by anyone and that it just got there by chance, even though every tiny detail is structured and arranged to create a conducive living environment? For that individual to go and live in the house, enjoy the food, use the bathroom, sleep on the bed and after all that say that the house just appeared by chance and that all the beautiful walls, the arranged furniture and the food just appeared out of nowhere, unintentionally and without cause would be an insult to the architect and owner of the house, wouldn’t it? Considering how incredibly beautiful and well-structured creation is, the trees, the sea and the creatures in the sea and on land, the birds, the earths revolution and rotation, how good the fruits taste, our legs, hands and eyes; honestly I could go on and on. We walk under the light of the sun God gives us, drink his water, breathe his air, eat his food and yet we refuse to give him the glory he so rightly deserves. Why don’t we even bother to seek him?

The goal of a testimony is to show that something exists or is true. Generation after generation men and women have asked the question, Is there a God? Some believe that it is foolish to believe in God, some believe that there can’t be only one God, while others question why an almighty and all loving God would allow so much pain in the world. Some ask without expecting a convincing answer, Prove that there is a God and I will believe? When quite frankly, we have been given more than enough evidence and creation alone confirms what the bible says that the fool has said in his heart, ‘there is no God.’ We hear people vehemently oppose the possibility of there being a God, as a result of this they try to rationalize and explain away any evidence they may receive. If we refuse to embrace God’s truth, how then can we understand? We forget that we have already received, and continue to receive, day after day, God’s testimony.

Have we sought God wholeheartedly and truthfully? Have we asked God to reveal Himself to us? If not, how can we say that we cannot find something or someone we haven’t wholeheartedly sought after or looked for? God is faithful! He will reveal himself to those who seek him with all their heart. Unbelief is not an intellectual problem, it’s just a rejection of God. Many these days believe that God was created in the imagination of man. Thus, they are indifferent when it comes to questions about God. The most important decision you will ever make is the decision whether to accept Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross for you; the decision whether to accept his call to repentance; the decision whether to accept his love for you and to surrender your life to him.

"This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all men-the testimony given in its proper time." (1 Timothy 2:3-6)

Many choose not to come to Christ or to call themselves Christians because they’ve seen how some who call themselves Christians behave and want nothing to do with Christianity. To anyone who feels the same way, I would like to remind you that there is no justification for rejecting God just because of someone else’s way of life, and also, not everyone who calls him or herself a Christian is truly born of God nor do they live the life that God has called us to live.

In a short film I watched, a prostitute who is just about to give her life to Christ decides not to because she sees the pastor speaking to one of her clients. Like her, so many have turned their backs on God blaming the hypocrisy of other ‘Christians.’ Does that justify rejecting God? No it doesn’t! God has called us to seek him truthfully and not a pastor or a church, but a call to follow Jesus and receive the light of life. He understands our motives and he promises us that if we seek him with wholehearted devotion and a willing mind, we will find him and he will never forsake us. Despite mankind’s continuous rejection of God and his Son Jesus, God still holds out his gift of salvation, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. The truth remains that, the holy, just and true God who made all things by his power and will desires that all men be saved and acknowledge the truth. So many people have heard so many times, ‘God loves you’, yet they look at their environment, their circumstances, their situation, those who claim to be Christians and are not and ask themselves, Does God really love me? or/and Does God even exist? Jesus said, ‘Seek ye the kingdom of heaven and its righteousness.’ And God promises in his word, ‘You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart’ (Jeremiah 29:13).

Does God really love you? Answer: Yes (More than anyone has ever, can ever or