Finding God

There is no one holy like the Lord . There is no one besides You! And there is no rock like our God.
1 Samuel 2:2 HCSB

Hannah, the prophet Samuel's mother prayed this prayer. She had been unable to bear children and she went to the Lord and He heard her and gave her Samuel. Hannah had promised to give Samuel back to the Lord and when He was weaned she took him to the temple and gave him to Eli.

This must have been the hardest thing to do. Hannah had been childless until Samuel came along and now Hannah gave up her only child. Yet God was not finished with Hannah, she went on to have many more children, five in fact. Yet at this point, the point of prayer, she did not know the future. What a brave lady!

I saw an interview done with one of Australia's more prominent artists yesterday. He said he grew up in the Catholic system but did not believe the bible stories to be true, yet He envied those who did. His only sense of spirituality came from sitting in a cemetery. How sad!

I do believe in the bible stories and see my God there. I see faith there. I draw strength from the faith I see there. My connection with God is through a living relationship with Him and I can find that anywhere. I go to cemeteries to pay respect to the dead not to find the living. My living God is able to be found by those who seek Him. Today I will go to church to fellowship with other believers and seek Him in the spoken word.

God is near, closer than you could believe, waiting for a heart to turn to Him. Ask Him in! Amen!