Why are we here? To Seek God/ Seek and you shall find.
Hebrews 11:6, “But without faith it is impossible to please
him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a
rewarder of them that diligently seek him.”1. If you are seeking God, your search must be diligent, persistent, insistent and tenacious one.
2. Diligence is faithful or persistent and painstaking
effort.
3. In Luke 11:5-13, Jesus teaches that (“shameless
insistence and persistence”) will receive results from God.4. If you are diligently seeking God, He will “stir Himself up” and move heaven and earth if that’s what it takes to solve your problems.
5. There are many Biblical characters who would not have received the rewards they were seeking had they not sought God diligently. 2 Chronicles 26:5 Uzziah sought God during the days of Zechariah, who taught him to fear God.
God is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. Diligence connects you with your reward. The adverb "diligently" changes the meaning entirely
Persistence is in present tense: "Ask, seek, and
knock". These commands might be translated;
"Keep on asking, keep on seeking, and keep on
knocking." The emphasis is on persistence.
Diligence must characterize the prayer life of every
believer. Believers are to be continually asking, seeking, and knocking so that
God will respond and open the door in order to supply the needs they are requesting.
The command to "ask," teaches that we are to look
to God to supply us strength to obey those commands He has just taught.
We are commanded to "seek"; that goes deeper than
asking; there is a difference between asking and seeking. Seeking means we go
with all effort to search out God's will as revealed in His Word with regard to
the particular circumstances.
We have as an example
Luke 16:37, the woman who lost a piece of silver. She swept her house; she
looked and didn't leave one corner untouched or one thing unturned until she
found it