Thursday, July 9, 2026
For I know the plans I have for you — this is the Lord’s declaration — plans for your well-being, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. You will call to me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart. I will be found by you — this is the Lord’s declaration… Jeremiah 29:10-14 CSB
Seek Him With Your Whole Heart
In the scripture above, the prophet Jeremiah’s letter to the Jews tells them of a future and a hope they can cling to. It was many generations before Christ’s birth and the Jews turned away from God and turned to idols, leading to their exile. They were seeking the wrong things in the wrong places. Their exile was over now and the prophet Jeremiah gives them some good news - For I know the plans I have for you — this is the Lord’s declaration — plans for your well-being, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. You will call to me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart. I will be found by you — this is the Lord’s declaration…
Jeremiah was telling them that God had good plans for them and that instead of looking for wrong things in wrong places that would never fill them, they could seek Him to find what they needed. The same is true for us today. We will only end up exiled when we seek something besides God to fill the hole in our lives. But He promises that when we truly seek Him with our whole hearts, we will always find Him. He doesn’t hide or make it hard. He is right there waiting. When we have been seeking the wrong things, we can turn to him, seek him with our whole hearts, and find the fulfillment we seek.
We are all seeking something. It may be popularity, wealth, or love. It may be happiness, satisfaction, or the perfect job, car, spouse, or children. All these things are good gifts from the Lord as long as He remains on the throne of our hearts. But for many, they will never find what they are looking for because they are looking in the wrong place. We will never find the right thing in the wrong place. We will always find the wrong thing in the wrong place like the Israelites. The void we want filled, the hole in our heart we want patched, the loneliness we want to vanish, the loss we want erased – nothing on this earth will help any of this. Jesus is the only one who can give us what we want and need.
The Israelites were worshipping idols and looking in all the wrong places for fulfillment. What are you seeking and worshipping today? Are you willing to seek him with your whole heart - getting rid of the idols and wrong things you have been seeking to find what only Jesus can give you?
