Jeremiah 29:13
Seek God and You Will Find Him
13 You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.
Matthew 7:7-12
Seek and You Shall Find
7 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
9 “Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? 11 If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! 12 So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
The Prophet Jeremiah was told by God that if we seek Him with all our heart, we will find Him...Jesus tells us to seek and we shall find...So we must make an effort to find God if we want to have faith...
Author Lee Strobel wrote these things about faith and in finding our Father in Heaven: “... even if I were to actually lose everything - my house, my finances, my friends, my reputation, my position - it really wouldn't matter in the end, because I would still have God's Grace...I would still be the Father's adopted and beloved son. And that would be enough.”...“Only in a world where faith is difficult can faith exist...I don’t have faith in two plus two equals four or in the noonday sun...Those are beyond question...But Scripture describes God as a hidden God...You have to make an effort of faith to find Him...There are clues you can follow.”...“God gives us just enough evidence so that those who want Him can have Him...Those who want to follow the clues will...“The Bible says, ‘Seek and you shall find.’...It doesn’t say everybody will find Him; it doesn’t say nobody will find Him...Some will find...Who?...Those who seek...Those whose hearts are set on finding Him and who follow the clues.”...“Faith is only as good as the one in whom it’s invested.”...