A Seek/Shall Attitude

And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.” Hebrews 6: 15 (regarding Abraham.)

When we have prayers that are unanswered… when we are in difficult situations… when it seems that we are at the mercy of the enemy…

And the enemy shows no mercy…

Do we wonder if the skeptics might be right… that we’ve been left here on our own to fend for ourselves.

Do we start to think of God differently?  Do we think He isn’t the type to bother with us… that there are bigger things He is concerned with… that we should actually be happy that it isn’t worse?

That we were crazy to think that He would do… whatever?

Or do we fight it?  Do we endure?

I admit that sometimes… did I say “sometimes”  I meant to say “often…”  I get impatient with God.

I don’t want to have to endure.

And the thought of putting the two of those words together… patiently enduring… feels more like hope deferred to me… which makes me a little nauseous. (Proverbs 13:12)

I don’t want to have an it could be worse attitude.  AND I really don’t want to have an it could be better attitude either.

I want to have the I may not see it… but I know it is here attitude….

A Seek/Shall attitude.

“Seek and ye shall find.” Matt 7:7   “Seek ye first the kingdom of God…and all these things shall be…” Matt 6:33

Abraham  had a seek/shall attitude.  The verse doesn’t say that he received the promise… it says he obtained the promise.

That means that the promise was there.

His patience… his endurance… his willingness to not stop believing…

To not settle… to keep seeking…

Allowed him to obtain… to take hold…  of the promise that already was!

God’s word to you is certain.  His promises are sure.

And they are worth the fight… the resistance to give in… the tendency to settle.  They are worth the seeking.

We might not want to have to endure… but we CAN endure to have.

What are you seeking?... What will you take hold of?

Endure… you shall.
SDG