“But may all who search for you be filled with joy and gladness in you.  May those who love your salvation repeatedly shout, “God is great!”

a verse found in the book of Psalms chapter 70, verse 4 (70:4)

It says all who search for God will be filled with joy.
Search is not passive.            Search is not complacent.                 Search is not accidental or haphazard.

Search implies being intentional and purposeful.

This makes me think of a regular occurrence at the Copeland house, losing our iPad charger.  We are often on a frantic search because Jeremy needs the iPad for his message notes for church.  So we are all in hot pursuit of this charger.  All of us, kids included, are purposefully looking everywhere.  That is the image I want to think of when it says “all who search for you.”

I want to be intentional in searching for God.

Definitions of search:  

• try to find something by looking or otherwise seeking carefully and thoroughly.
• to go or look through carefully in order to find something missing or lost (How many of us feel like something is missing in our lives or feel like we lost a closeness/connection to God that we once had)
• to look at or examine carefully in order to find something concealed.  God won’t push himself on us.  He is there and can be found by those who seek him out.