that you, how much do you know about? or the rest of us to death. Some of you have the details of every sports team, NBA team, you know basketball. You could say a lot of things about a lot of things because you know about it. You've studied it. You're interested in it. You pursued it. And you spent time, you spent a lot of time studying the things you're interested in. How much time have you spent studying God? How much do you know God? How long can you talk about God? How much do you seek to know Him? How much do you want to know Him? Do you really want to know God? Do you think you've got enough of God? Are you satisfied with the level that you're in? Do you think, well, I've got all the God I need. I'm good there. I got that. I'm an expert on that topic. What's next? Are you satisfied with your walk with the Lord? I mean, honestly ask your conscience this. Are you content? How many other things are you pursuing right now? How many things that has your attention? Right now, what are you focused on? What are you excited about? Where is your heart? How much of it does God have? How much of it does this world have? Our verse says in verse six. And without faith, it is impossible to please him. For whoever would draw near to God. Must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him. So I'm going to ask two questions to us this morning. I asked myself this, and I can tell you I prayed already for you. I prayed for myself. In the desire of my heart. Honestly, the desire of my heart for you and for myself. Because we're all together in this. My desire is that whatever degree that we're pursuing after God. And some of us are pursuing God more fervently than others. Some of us are distracted. Some of us have gone cold. We're Christians, but we're just not seeking the Lord as earnestly as we used to. Some of us are not seeking God at all. Some of you are lost. Some of you are running from God. You're not pursuing God. But wherever you you're at. To whatever degree you want to know God, my prayer, my earnest prayer is that God would strengthen our resolve today to seek Him more. And so, before we jump into this, let's take a moment, all of you. I think about this all the time. There's only 52 Sundays a year. We don't have a lot of time. I don't want to preach a dead sermon. We don't have enough time to preach dead sermons. We don't have enough time just to go through the motions and this is just another Sunday. It was always a good one. Yeah, we sung some hymns. Oh, did you hear that? That was a little off key or I really didn't like that song selection. We don't have enough time for that. You're dying. You're dying. Half this congregation will be dead in 50 years. The other half will be dead in a hundred years. We don't have enough time left to waste. So let's pray. Let's pray. Earnestly pray for ourselves. Join with me. Don't just let me pray this for myself. Pray God. Pray, please, I beg you. God, please. Help me seek you. The Bible promises if we draw near to him, he will draw near to us. So let's pray that we do that. Dear God, even right now we want to draw near to you. Calm, dear Lord, show us yourself. We've tasted the world and we found it empty. We found it to not be satisfying. We're sorry, dear Lord, that we are so easily distracted by the cares and concerns and deceitfulness of this world. We lose sight of you so easily. Oh, forgive us, dear God. Draw us back to you. Show us yourself. Give us a love for you. This we pray in your son's name, amen. Do you wanna find God? I mean, ask yourself, do I wanna find God? I wanna experience God. I don't wanna just be an intellectual knowledge. I actually, truly, experientially, I wanna be in the presence of the living God. I want God, I need God. I'm tired, I'm kinda, I feel, I feel the weariness of my soul. I went through two days this week, two days this week where I said, something's off with me. Something's off. And I couldn't say it was this known sin or this big thing, but just something was off. And I could tell you, looking back on those two days, I'll tell you what was off of it. My wife, she could testify to this because she told me, she says, you're irritable. It's like, I know I'm irritable. I don't know why I'm irritable. But I look back on those two days of irritability and I say, I know what's wrong. I wasn't with the Lord. I hadn't had the sweetness of Christ in my life those days. You say, I want that. Some of you desperately need to renew the joy of your salvation. You've lost it. You're cold and you know you're cold or you're indifferent. And some of you are hot, but you say, well, I'm satisfied with the level of heat that I have. But you need more. You need more. And if you're ever content with the degree of knowledge of God you have, then something's wrong with you. And something's wrong with me. The Bible doesn't just say, seek the Lord ever now and then. It doesn't say, seek the Lord on Sunday. Seek the Lord when we do communion. No, it said, seek the Lord at all times. Always, the Bible says, seek the Lord. And do you want to find God? If you're here this morning and say, I don't know God, but I'd like to find him. Where is he located? I'm going to tell you, I'm going to give you God's Word today, how to find God. And if you believe God's Word, you will find Him today. You will find Him. And I promise you that. You will have more of God today than you did before you got here. Is that what you want? The first thing you need to do if you want God, You need to believe in Him. Step number one. Don't pile up your good works. Don't be like, well, I've got to do a lot of things. No. Step number one, it begins with faith. Verse 6 says, and without faith it is impossible to please God. First thing is first. Whoever would draw near to God must believe that He exists. The pursuit of God. If you're going to run after God, if you're going to try to find God, the first place to start is by believing in Him. You say to yourself, I don't believe God. I don't see Him. Where is He at? I don't see God. I mean, where is He at in this room? Is He here? You see Jeff Johnson, you see a pulpit, you see other people. It's easier to see the dead space in this room, the air, than it is to see God. One atheist says, what are you going to do if you wake up when you're dead and find that there's a God? What are you going to tell God? The atheist says, I'll just tell Him there just wasn't enough evidence. Because the atheists believe that the only thing that you can believe in is the things that you can sense with your five senses. You have to experience God physically, see Him, as if God is a part of creation. If God could be seen, if He was a part of creation, He wouldn't be God. You say, well, I don't see God. And you don't see God. The Bible says none of us have seen God. We don't see God. So how can I find a God that can't be found? Where am I going to go to locate Him? But you know what you can see, and what we do see really evidently, we see the world. You see the pleasures of this world. You see the deceitfulness of riches, do you not? Do you not see the cares of this world? Do you not see that if you want more of this world, you want more of this life, you want to grab hold of the things that are fleeting and that is passing away, your life is passing away. But if you want to try to grab hold of all that you can grab hold of in this life, that I just need more, I need more. And therefore, what do we need more of if we want more of this world? We all need more money. Who here pursues money? We all do. We all would love to have a little more money. Give me more money. There's more security in money. I'll have more security. I can buy more of the world's good. I can be more comfortable. I can provide for my family better. I can provide for my grandkids. I need more money. And so we pursue it, we seek after it. The Bible tells us, it warns us. Paul tells Timothy, those who desire to be rich fall into all kinds of temptations, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. It's through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains. I mean, some have started off, you know, like that the seed has come in and with joy they receive the Word and they start off strong, but then the thorn bushes come in and then they become choked out. The Word becomes choked. It becomes staffled because of the cares and deceitful riches of this world, the concerns of this world, begin to draw the affections and the attentions away from God, away from His Word, away from the pursuit of the Lord, into the pursuit back to this world. And it chokes the Word where they become very unfruitful. The world is like a drug. It promises us a little bit of happiness, but when we get it, it only increases the desire for the world, leaving us all the more miserable. You've tasted it. I have. I have tasted the world. In fact, I dove into it. I remember being a high school student, just wanting the new car, wanting the new clothes, wanting this, and I just found myself entrapped with all the desires. The discontentment that it brought into my life, which brings in all types of misery and unhappiness. There's no joy in this world. But it says, hey, come after me. And we go. How many of us are distracted with the cares of this world? How many of us are distracted with entertainment? You may be addicted to your phones, social media. little videos and so forth, or you're addicted to shopping or dining. And I'm not against any of these things. I participate in all these things. I'm not trying to say these things are evil, but this is where our hearts gravitate to. What about sports? Two weeks ago, a week ago, Arkansas, no joke, and I don't mean to be funny here, August Hall wasn't supposed to win the game. Then they look like they're going to win the game. Then they look like they're going to lose the game. Then they look like they're going to win the game. My heart broke three times. And I realized it has a hold of me. We all need to hear this. It's just a game. But the world has made a game, the foolishness of it, into idolatry. You say, well, I'll never do that. You've done it. You've done it. Well, maybe it's not football, but maybe it's movies. Maybe it's some type of whatever it may be. It's something that's alluring to you. Cooking or home repairs or whatever it could be. These things become something that you feel like you have to have to be happy. These things are distractions. And often we're killed by one distraction after another distraction after another distraction after another distraction. He's like, oh, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity. If I don't take this trip, I'm never going to do it again. So you take a trip, then the next week there's something else that's pulling you. Oh, I got to do this. This is amazing opportunity. And next thing you know, you're chasing one amazing opportunity after the next. You're never in church, you're not reading your Bible anymore, and you're distracted, and you wonder why your heart's cold, you wonder why you don't know who God is, and you say, where's God at in all this? Well, you're running away from Him. After you wear yourself out pursuing this world, you have no time left over. He said, well, you can have my five minutes. Listen, shame on us. And I'm not saying shame on you because I feel my own heart convicted. Shame on us when we come to the end of the day and we barely whisper a prayer out because that's all the energy we have left. But do you feel empty? Do you feel something's missing? I hope you do. Because there's hope for you. There's hope for you. See, the first thing you must do to come to God, you must believe that He is. You're not going to seek God if you don't believe He's there to be found. I mean, why would you look for something? You know, none of us have gone after a deep search for unicorns. We just haven't. We're not going to. I'm not going to spend time looking for a unicorn. I might make up stories about unicorns, but I'm not going to search for them because I don't believe they exist. If they did exist, I don't know how far I'd go to find one. So you're not going to seek God if you don't believe in him. You don't believe He even is there to be found. You've got to understand that the pursuit of God begins with faith, not works, faith. Because without faith, our text says, it is impossible to please Him. So you see, faith is the evidence of things not seen. It's by faith that we see God. The Bible tells us the things that are not seen are more real, more eternal, more substantial than things that are seen. It's not irrational to believe in the things that are eternal. What's irrational is to go after the things that are not going to be eternal. What's foolish is not seeking God, what's foolish is seeking this world, because this world is passing away. Don't lay up your treasures where moths can corrupt and thieves can come steal away. That's not going to be eternal. I mean, you give your whole life to building your career, then you die. And you have nothing. What vanity, what foolishness, what a waste of life, what a waste of time. And that's why a lot of people feel miserable because they know, essentially they know they're wasting their life away. You go look at a drug addict on the streets of San Francisco and go, what a waste, they're wasting their life. This is a precious life and they're just wasting it. But look at around us, look at Conway, look at our citizens, look at us. We're not any different. Are we? It might not be drugs. It might not be fentanyl. But it's still a waste. It's still a waste of being made in the image of God. It still comes short of the glory of God. You see, we must believe that God is there. And ask yourself this. I really want you and myself to say, do I believe God is there? And if you don't, what are we doing here? Well, I don't even know if He's there. I don't know if there's a God. No wonder we're not seeking Him. It's because we have such little vision of God. A little reality of who He is. A lot of us are practical atheists. We say in our head there's a God, but we don't act like it in our lives. Remember when Jesus said to Peter, do you love me? Peter says, yeah, I love you. No, do you love me? And Peter says, yes, you know I love you. Peter, do you love me? Why do you think Jesus asked him three times? It's because if you love me, it's going to affect your life. Feed my sheep. Let me ask you three times. Do you believe in God? Ask your conscience that. Do you believe in God? I know intellectually you say, yes, I do. No, ask your heart that. Do you believe in God? Do you believe he's watching you? The reason you sin is because for a moment you forgot God. You become a practical atheist. Oh, he's not watching me. You slip up with your girlfriend. Oh, no big deal. No, it is a big deal. God watching you. He's watching you. He's watching you watch what you're watching. If you believe God, you would know that. If you believe God, it would change the way you think. It would change the way you behave because you know God's there. Where is God? He's right next to you. If God is God, He's close. He's omnipresent. He's in your conscience. He's in your heart. He's in your mind. He sees all. Do you believe that? You see, seeking God begins with believing that God exists. For whoever would draw near to God must believe that He exists. Though I don't see Him, I know that He is there. I know He is there. And I know, I can tell you wholeheartedly, I know God exists. I don't know a lot of things, but I know that. And let me ask you children. My little daughter, Evelyn, come up to me this morning. She says, are you going to preach in a way I can understand? She says, I'm going to try to listen today. Evelyn, where are you at? Do you believe in God? Kids, do you believe in God? Yes. Then how can you sin? How can you run from Him? How can you love this world if you believe in God? Do you not know He hates sin? You know the reason we don't run to God when we know there is a God? It's easy. This is the reason people hate God. They know God, but they hate Him. Because it's not just believing God's enough to come to them, but that's the first step. God is an all-piercing light of holy glory. And when we come to God, we run to God, what does it do? It exposes our sins. The closer you get to God, the more sinful you become, at least in your own mind. You see your sins greater. And no one likes to feel guilty. No one likes like, oh, look, you don't love the Lord enough. I don't like to hear that. I'm good. You need to tell me I'm good. You need to tell me I'm good. And when I come to God, the God is not saying you're good. God is saying, look, you're coming up short. I mean, we don't like that. So we run from God. We want to be told all is well. You don't need to be a zealot. You don't need to be overzealous. You don't need to be a fanatic. You don't need to take this too serious. You've got enough. You're fine. You're good. You don't need to be challenged. But listen, when we run to God, it's going to challenge us, it's going to rebuke us, it's going to correct us. But you've got to understand, the closer you get to God, that very sinful behavior in you is going to be burnt up as well. It's going to purify you. And you're going to become more like God the closer you get to God. and you're going to be more filled with the presence of God, and it's going to be more joyful and glorious the closer you get. If you run from that conviction, and you run from the guilt, and you say, I don't want it, I don't want that type of preaching, I don't want that type of vision of God, and you run from that, you're going to go deeper into darkness. But if you're here, and you got into the presence of God just a little bit, If this sermon has brought you into the presence of God just a little bit, do you have a little bit of guilt? A little bit of like, I need to do better. If that's how you feel, let me give you this wonderful word. Jesus says to us, especially if you're tired of this world, come unto me. All you who are labor and heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me for I'm meek and lowly in heart, and you shall find rest for your soul. See, see, God says, come to me. The second thing we must do to come to the Lord, to seek the Lord. You've got to see that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him. You know, if God is just going to rebuke you the whole time and stomp on you and throw you into hell, why even run to a God like that? In fact, that's what happens to those who run away from God. If you run from God, do not be deceived or do not be mocked. You will not fool God. He will throw you into hell. You will not get away with it. Just because you don't want to know you have AIDS doesn't mean you're not going to die of AIDS. Just because you don't want to know you're a sinner and you don't want to have the guilt doesn't mean you're not going to be thrown into outer darkness because of all your wickedness and sin in your life. But if you turn and allow God to expose your sins and your iniquities and your failures, He will forgive you of all your sins. Do you believe this, that God will reward you, bless you? if you come seek Him. Do you not realize that there is forgiveness and mercy and grace? Not just forgiveness, but those joy unspeakable and full of glory. Do you not understand that in the presence of God there is fullness of joy? The world offers you misery, but you can be joyful and happy. It's like I haven't had happiness in a long time. I haven't had real contentment for weeks now. Well, you can have it. And you don't need things to change in your life. You don't need better friends, you don't need a better church, you don't need better vehicles, more money, a better job, you don't need better security, you don't need anything to change in your life, but you can have contentment, joy, unspeakable, and you can have a peace in your heart that surpasses understanding. You can be filled with the fullness of God. You want that? Do you want to know God? Do you not believe that God will reward you if you seek Him? That He'll give you the desires of your heart? He'll fill you with all the fullness of the greatness of all the blessings Himself? Do you believe this? If you believe it, go! Run! Come! Psalmist says, one thing I've asked from the Lord, this only do I seek, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. I mean, I don't care about anything else. You can take everything. You can take my life. I'm not putting my health above you. I'm not putting riches above you. I'm not putting anything above you. This is one desire. I have one request, one desire. Take everything else, but one thing that you can't take, one thing I want of you, I want this, that I might dwell in your house. And it's not the house that I want, I want to dwell in the house of the Lord so I can gaze upon your beauty. Psalm 63, you O God are my God. Earnestly I seek you. I thirst for you. My whole being longs for you. I mean, is this how you feel? My whole being longs after you. I'm thirsty after you. I'm craving you. in a dry and parched land where there is no water. I'm in this world, and this world is empty, it's dry, it's full of sin and iniquity. My eyes get distracted on it every now and then. I see it, but then I see that you're altogether glorious, altogether lovely. In you there's treasures of life. You're the treasure above all treasures, and I'm willing to sell all that I have. I'm willing to forsake everything, but I gotta have you. I love when Jesus come out of Jericho on His way to Jerusalem to be crucified. There was two blind men. I love these blind men because they wouldn't take no for an answer. And because they were blind, they couldn't see Christ. But they had a request when they heard all the noise on the streets. And so they cried out over and over, Son of David, have mercy upon me. And these two men kept on crying out. And the people around them said, be quiet, shut up. You know, you're causing a scene. And the more they tried to be hushed, the more these men said, Son of David. Son of David. And finally, Jesus overheard them. He says, bring those men here. And I love what Jesus says to those men. And he says this to you right now, because right now you're brought into the presence of God. You're in the presence of God right now. And he brings you into him. And this is what he said to the blind man. What do you want me to do for you? Could you imagine God Almighty standing in front of you? And he says, what do you want me to do for you? Now, you've got one request, what do you ask? Know this, Jesus has said in his word, ask anything in my name and my father will give it to you so that he will be glorified in the sun. Do you believe that? Do you believe that he will give you the desires of your heart? Do you believe that you can come to God and you can seek God and ask him of glorious things? And what do you want to ask God today? Ask Him something. You know, we're going to have communion in a minute. We're going to have a little moment of quietness. During that time, take this time now. Start asking now. Lord, I've asked a lot of really weird things over the last week. Forget about all that. I've got to have you. To my shame. To my shame. I'm embarrassed by this. During the Razorback game two weeks ago, I caught myself unintentionally and not purposefully, unintentionally going, Lord, could you help Razorbacks win? It's just a game. Why would I ask that? Because my affections are tied up into it. I wanted it. I'm just being honest. Let the Razorbacks lose the rest of the season, for every season after this. Let everything be gone. It's garbage. Is that not what the Apostle Paul said? I mean, he says, I count all these things, the things that I thought were treasures to me, the things that I aspired after, the things I gave my life to, I worked hard for, I was making advancements, and I was advancing in my craft, and I was gaining promotion after promotion, but now I look back on all that, all that I gave my life to, I count it as trash, as dung, you can have it. All I want now is to apprehend that which has apprehended me. I strive, I press, is the word press. I strive, I press, I put my energy towards this. I want to know Him who knows me. Is that your heart? Jeremiah 29, 13 says, you will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found of you, declares the Lord. This is why the word here in the original is not just seek God. You must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who seek Him. It's not just seek Him. In the word here, the Greek word means to earnestly look. King James translates this, diligently search, diligently seek after him. The Bible tells us James 4a, if you draw near to God, it's like where is God? I don't sense him. He says, if you'll draw near to me, I will draw near to you. R.C. Sproul says, I was once read the following definition of a fanatic. A fanatic is a person who, having lost sight of his goal, redoubles his effort to get there. The fanatic runs around fanatically getting nowhere. He is a basketball player without a basket, a tennis player without a net, a golfer without a green. For a Christian to make progress in learning to please God, he must have a clear idea of what his goal is. Jesus stated it this way, seek first the kingdom of God. Some of us are Christians, we're busy about all kinds of things, but we have forgotten the chief objective, seeking Christ, seeking first God. First Chronicles 22 19 says, now set your heart and soul to seek the Lord your God. Set your heart on this. This is where I'm praying for myself. I'm praying for you that today there's like, I'm going to set my heart to this. I'm going to be determined to do this. I'm looking that God is going to reward me. And I know there is a treasure at the end of the journey. And therefore I'm going after it and I'm not going to be content until I find it. The Lord beckons us to come. He says in Isaiah 55, come all you who are thirsty, come to the waters and you who have no money, come buy and eat, come buy wine and milk without money and without cost. Why spend money on what is not bread and labor and what does not satisfy? Let me break that down to the children. Say, I don't know how to find Jesus. I don't know where to go. Listen, you don't have to have any money. You don't have to be very smart. You don't have to go anywhere. You don't have to walk down this aisle. You have to do nothing. But in your heart, say, Lord, I've got to find you. I love Jacob. Jacob wrestled with the angel of the Lord, and he recognized somewhere in the middle of the night that this wasn't just an angel, but this was God. And he's wrestling with God, and God is saying to him, is the pre-incarnate Christ, and Christ is saying to him, let me go, let me go, let me go. And Jacob says, no, no, no, I'm not going to let you go. Sometimes God tells us, no, you may be praying for things and I don't believe in health and wealth and prosperity. I don't believe you can name it and claim it. You don't get to make up the promises. And then after you make up a promise, then go, I claim the promise that I made up. No, God gives promises. And those are the ones you believe in, not your own promises. But the promises of God that He will draw near to you, that He will come to you, He'll forgive you of all your sins, those things you can claim, those things you can name, those things you can say, I won't take no for. And if you can take no for it, you're not going to find it. If you can live without God, then you're going to live without God. But if you say to your heart, I can't go without God. I can't live without God. I need God in my life. I need Him desperately. And I'm not going to quit praying. I'm not going to quit seeking. I'm not going to quit begging out until God comes. And I promise you by the authority of God Himself, He will come to you. He won't disappoint you. He will reward you. If you believe He will reward you, For diligently seeking after Him with all your heart, you will have the desires of your heart. Deuteronomy 4, 29, But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him when you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. A. W. Tozer says, this is one of the signs of great men. Come near to holy men and women of the past and you will soon feel the heat of their desire after God. They mourned for him. They prayed and wrestled and sought for him day and night, in season and out. When they had found him, the finding was all the sweeter for the long sinking. So let's close with some practical applications. How do we find God? Well, we believe in Him. We know He's going to reward us. We seek after Him. But in seeking Him, you must first turn from your sins. John Calvin says we cannot seriously aspire to Him before we begin to become displeased with ourselves. According, the knowledge of ourselves not only arouses us to seek God, but also, as it were, it leads us by the hands to find Him. You see, This is why Calvin says the knowledge of God comes with the knowledge of self. And as you see something about the glory of God and the hidden treasure that he is, you begin to go, I don't have it in myself. And it's not to be found in this world. James 4, 8 put it this way, draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. You can't seek God and seek this world. You cannot love God and this world at the same time. You cannot serve two masters. The reason you're not seeking God with all your heart, because you're seeking this world. The world still has a part of your heart, has a part of your affections. And it might be disguised with fame and fortune or some type of religious clout. It's easy to say, well, I'm religious. It's pride that you're seeking. Reputation. Whatever. It's not Christ. Isaiah 55, seek the Lord while He may be found. Call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Seeking the Lord begins with turning from our sins. Ask yourself this as you're thinking about, I want the Lord. What sins have to go? It's not for me to know. It's between you and God right now. What sins in your heart you know they have to go? There's convictions like this can't be. I cannot cling to this and cling to Christ. I've got to let this go. Let me urge you. Let it go. Let it go. Well. Maybe it's not any big sins. You know, it's easy to let the big ones go, or I say, well, it's not. It takes the grace of God to let the big ones go. But those are easy to spot. And it's like, well, I don't have any major sins in my life that I know of. Well, if you want to see come closer, sometimes you have to look and say, what, what is hindering me? from knowing the Lord. Hebrews 12 verse 1, it says, Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and sin which clings so closely and let us run endurance the race that is set before us. It's not just a sin you have to lay aside. Could you imagine running a race and you're trying to win? And you've got a wagon that you're pulling full of movies. Full of, you know, you've got gold and all your precious materials that you're dragging behind you. I want to get to heaven and I've got to bring this stuff with me. It's hindering you. Let it go. Let it go. What cannot assist you and what does not assist you to know the Lord needs to go. What is not pushing you towards Christ has to go in your life. Let it go. Do you believe you'll be rewarded? Do you believe that? Do you believe that nothing you've forsaken this life will not be given to you in return with greater joy, not in just this life, but in the life to come? Do you really believe that? See, this is why faith is the essence. If we really believe the Bible, if we really believe the Bible, we'd empty out our pocketbooks every week. We would. And I know you're arguing with me on that. We argue with it because we don't have the faith that moves mountains. Just be honest about it. If you understood that what you give in this life is laid up in heaven forever and if you understood eternity, if you really understood that, it would change the way you live. It changed the way you pursue, it changed your direction. You'd be like, how do I support missions better? How do I support the poor? How do I support the church? How do I serve and seek and give my all and be fanatical about it? And I'll use the word fanatical because that's the way the world will treat us. You can be a Christian, just don't be fanatical. You can give, but just don't go crazy. You can serve, but don't give all your heart. Reserve a little bit back for the world. Have a little bit. But the Lord says, come. come. And the more you seek Him, the more you'll be rewarded. We haven't yet seen all of God yet. There's more to be had. Let us let things go. Let us run to the Lord. Let us earnestly, with all of our hearts, come to God. And if you're lost, come by the grace of His Son who died on the cross for your sins. He will forgive you and give you life more abundantly. Jesus said to the woman, if you knew kind of water that I have, you would ask of me and I would give you water which you would never thirst again. So come. Dear Lord, we do come before you and we see that if you would give us your grace to pursue you more earnestly, we're sorry for our lackadaisical attitude. Fill us with zeal, the zeal of the Lord that pushes us towards You earnestly, pressed towards the goal of the high mark, to hate sin, to love Christ, to seek righteousness, to seek Your kingdom, all the things that are lovely, good, and pleasant. Lord, this is what we're asking for in Your Son's name. Amen.