Charles Spurgeon, “Seekers Directed and Encouraged“
Jeremiah 29:13, “You shall seek Me and find Me, when you shall search for Me with all your heart.”
Scripture demands that our seeking God should be done with all our heart. There are several ways of seeking God which must prove to be utter failures:
One is to seek him with no heart at all. This is done by those who take their book and read prayers, never thinking of what they say; or who attend a place of worship, and hear others pray, but never enter in. Also done by those who bend the knee in the evening, and mutter pious words, but never think; or those who rise in the morning and read sacred sentences, but never consider; or those who with regard to divine things, are as little concerned as if the gospel were all a legend, not worth a moment’s thought. …
Dear friend, you will never find the Lord if you seek him in a heartless, unthinking manner.
God is not mocked. If any of you have fallen into a formal religion, and seek the Lord without your heart–then your seeking is in vain.
Some seek God with a false heart. Their piety is a transient feeling, and not deep soul-work. It is mere sentimentality, and not the engraving of God’s Spirit upon the heart. Beware of a false religious excitement–of being borne up with religious gas, inflated like balloons by a tear-jerking sermon, only to burst by-and-by when most they need something to support them. May God grant us to be saved from a lie in the heart, for it is a deadly canker, fatal to all hope of finding the Lord.
Some seek him, also, with a double heart.
They have a heart towards God, and they have a heart towards sin.
Or They have a heart towards the pardon, but they have also a heart towards the transgression.
They would gladly serve both God and Mammon.
Because They would build an altar for Jehovah, and still keep Dagon in his place.
If your heart is divided, then you will be found lacking. Those prayers will never get to Heaven. …Beware of a double heart.
Some seek God with half a heart. They have a little concern, and are not altogether indifferent. They somewhat think when they pray, or read, or sing–but their thoughts are quite trivial and inconsequential. Superficial in all things, the seed is sown in stony ground, and soon it is withered away because there is no depth of earth. May the Lord save us from this.
Now, you who are seeking Christ, remember that if you would find Him, then you must neither seek Him without heart, nor with a false heart, nor with a double heart, nor with a half heart. But “You shall find Me,” says the Lord, “when you shall search for Me with all your heart.”
If your hearts are not right with God, then you must take your place with the wicked in Hell. Lost man! What will you do when you go down to eternal Hell?
“Others, like seed sown on stony ground, hear the Word and at once receive it with joy. But since they have no root, they last only a short time.” Mark 4:16-17
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