II Chronicles 15:2

2 Chron 15:2 (NIV) “The Lord (Yahweh) is with you when you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.”

God is with us. At Jesus’ birth the Angles of God announced in Matt 1:23 “and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.” If you would look at all the major religions of the world you would find that Buddha, Muhammad, Confucius and Moses all identified themselves as teachers or prophets. None of them were God. Jesus is unique, He is the only leader of a world religion the Christian church, born as a man but has existed before the beginning of time as God. “So you see, God is with us. He is our leader.” 2 Chron 13:12 (NLT.) Jesus is God and He eagerly wants, no craves a relationship with us, we are told that when you “come near to God, He will come near to you.” James 4:8. We have this promise, “You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.” Jer 29:13-14 (NIV.) Jesus Himself has said in Matt 7:7-8 “Seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.” No other god of any other religion has such an intense desire for a loving, personal relationship with us.

What other god loved mankind so intensely, that it would become a man so it could die to restore a right relationship between us and him. Only Jesus, “greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.” John 15:13 (NIV.) Paul explained, “You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.’ Rom 5:6-8 (NIV.)

Jesus said of himself, "I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep.” John 10:14-15 (NIV.) “My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand.” John 10:27-29 (NIV.)

What are some of the ways you are seeking God? Describe some actions that you think may be a way of forsaking God?