What does it mean to seek God? How do we seek God?

“To seek” God means: total unbridled commitment, blatantly obssessive pursuit, unreserved loyalty, and unashamed devotion. In a seemingly contradictory way, we are to “enslave” ourselves to God - not at our expense, but to our profit. By giving up everything to find God, we gain everything only to find that what we relinquished we could not keep and what we aquired we cannot lose. We sell what is worthless in order to acquire that which cannot be valued. We give up our lives in pursuit of God and in return we not only find Him who we sought, but are given a life worth living and, far better, life eternal. Thus, by whatever means, through His word, through His gifts, through His presence, we are to commit all our energies to restoration with our Father. In short, if we make God our sole desire and seek Him earnestly with all our hearts, then He will give Himself to us and we shall be rewarded with that which we seek.

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Key Old Testament References for דּרשׁ

1. Deuteronomy 4:29 - But from there you will seek the LORD your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
   
   
2. Ezra 7:10 - For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel.
   
   
3. Psalm 34:10 - The young lions suffer want and hunger; but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
   
   
4. Isaiah 34:16 - Seek and read from the book of the LORD: Not one of these shall be missing; none shall be without her mate. For the mouth of the LORD has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.
   
   
5. Jeremiah 29:13 - You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.  
   

Key New Testament  for ζητέω

1. 1. Matthew 6:33 - But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
      
      
   2. Romans 2:7 - to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;
      
      
   3. 1 Corinthians 14:12 - So with yourselves, since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, strive to excel in building up the church.
      
      
   4. Colossians 3:1 - If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
      
      
   5. 1 Peter 3:11 - let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it.