Johnny Lee had a hit song years ago that said he was “looking for love in all the wrong places.”  That is a good description of how most people look for answers to life’s questions. They are looking in the wrong places. I started reflecting on this yesterday based on this passage:

Isaiah 55:6-9 Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts. Let him turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will freely pardon. “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Isaiah says plainly that the Lord may be found, He is near, and that He is higher than our thoughts. The way we find Him is in His Word. God reveals Himself to us so that we can know Him.

Psalm 145:3 Great is the LORD and most worthy of praise; his greatness no one can fathom.

To think that our minds could understand and contain everything about the creator of all is terribly presumptuous. He reveals to us what we need to know to be forgiven. It is in the Bible that we find what we seek.

Psalm 119:105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path.

Romans 10:8 “The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,” that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming.”

That Word tells you all you need to know about God, the Word become flesh who came to take sin on Himself and take care of it for you. That Word provides the answers needed for this life and the life to come.

Those who seek God are invited to Call on Him. We call on Him in repentance. God invites even those who have chased and followed other gods to turn from their sin and return to Him. God wants all to call on Him in faith. Sorrow over sin means nothing without faith in the true God, without confidence in Jesus Christ as the one who has paid your debt to set you free.

There are seekers all around you, those looking for the answers to life’s problems, looking for purpose and direction and guidance, looking for forgiveness of sins. The answer is found only in God, only in His Word, only in Jesus. Invite those who are seeking to Call upon the Lord, turn to Him, and find what they are seeking.