Daily Devotion

Seek Him. Find Him.

by ampsd

I see a little child whose eager hands

Search the thick stream that drains the crowded street

For possible things hid in its current slow.

Near by, behind him, a great palace stands,

Where kings might welcome nobles to their feet.

Soft sounds, sweet scents, fair sights there only go –

There the child’s father lives, but the child does not know.

On, eager, hungry, busy-seeking child,

Rise up, turn round, run in, run up the stair.

Far in a chamber from rude noise exiled,

Thy father sits, pondering how thou dost fare.

The mighty man will clasp thee to his breast:

Will kiss thee, stroke the tangles of thy hair, 

And lap thee warm in fold on fold of lovely rest.

George MacDonald, The Diary of an Old Soul

This poem reminds me of the verse in Jeremiah, when the Lord speaks through the prophet, “You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.” -Jeremiah 29:13

Whatever we seek, whether it is in the sordid muck and mire of our world or the Life with a Father, warm and lovely, – we will find it. I pray, through the power of the Holy Spirit, we gain the wisdom to turn from the mire and rude noise of this world to Life with our King and Father. He is so Good to us. Amen.