Hidden in Plain View

 "You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you." Jeremiah 29:13

    Don't laugh but, after three years of owning my Buick, I discovered it had a heated steering wheel! Now that the Ohio air has a fall crisp to it, I have been reveling in the luxury of this unexpected gift.

    In the same way, the gracious gift of Jesus is available to us who are in need of the warm radiance of love and forgiveness, as we all are. It's right there in plain view, but sometimes, the stubbornness of our hearts prevent us from accepting it. "Could it really be as easy as this?" we ask, "Don't I have to earn it?"

    The Bible assures us of the nearness of God. 

• "For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened." Luke 11:10
• "But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and soul." Deuteronomy 4:29
• "God did this so we would seek him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us." Acts 17:27

    God is not hidden; He wants to be found! To see Him, look at all of creation. Open the love letter He sent, found in the pages of the Bible. As soon as we invite Him into our lives, the radiance of the Holy Spirit will warm our hearts like nothing else can do. 

"Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. It is not up in heaven so that you have to ask, 'Who will ascend into heaven to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?' Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask, 'Who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so that we may obey it?' No, the word is very near you; it is in your  mouth and in your heart so you may obey it." Deuteronomy 30:11-14