There is none that seeketh after God.
Romans 3:11
Have you ever heard someone say something like the following:
“Everyone, down deep in his heart, is searching and longing for God”? We’ve all
heard that, right? I know I have. In fact, I heard it preached to hundreds of
students just a few short hours ago. However, God has put me here to tell you
today that that statement is a lie straight from Hell. Anyone who has ever read
Romans 3:11 knows that is true. When the Bible says, “There is none that
seeketh after God,” it truly means that there has never been nor will there
ever be any unsaved person who is looking for God in any way, shape, or form;
therefore Jesus said, “Go ye into all the world, and preach
the gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15).
If every person, in his own way down deep in his heart, is
searching and longing for God, then tell me why John 3:19 says, “And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and
men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.”
Maybe it’s just me, but it seems as though this verse is saying that, even
after God had made a personal appearance in the form of the Man Jesus Christ,
we turned Him away because we loved our sin more. Now don’t you think if every
man were truly searching for God that, if He came to them, they would embrace
Him? After all, they’re supposedly searching for Him with all of their heart,
right? Wrong! “There is none that seeketh after God,” because “their deeds
[are] evil.”
Since there are none who seek after God, we
must seek them. That’s why we have the Great Commission to “go ye into all the
world, and preach the gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15). For it’s just
like one very wise man once said, “You don't find God—He's not lost. You
are, and He finds you.”
If you are out there today and you do not know Jesus as
Lord, my guess is that you are running from Him; not to Him. Therefore, I’m pleading
with you today to stop in your tracks, turn around, fall on your face before
Him, turn from all sin, and acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord. If you will do
that today, He will save you today and keep you saved forever.
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