We met a man who told us he had been seeking God for more than four years. He had been to churches and chapels, had wandered from place to place, seeking the knowledge of the forgiveness of his sins.
Isn't this man an example of many professedly zealous souls? The truth is, he was not in downright earnestness. His seeking was a listless sort.
He did not seek mercy and expect to find it. He had not even the determination of a poor man who has lost a coin. Such a poor man would seek earnestly desiring to find; but this was a self-styled seeker for eternal good. He made a religion out of seeking God, never meaning to find and to rejoice in the knowledge of salvation.
Oh, poor lost soul, "Seek ye the LORD while He may be found, call ye upon Him while He is near: let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and He will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon." Isa. 55:6, 76Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: 7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. (Isaiah 55:6‑7).