Desperately Seeking God

In the 1985 dramatic comedy, "Desperately Seeking Susan," a bored housewife become captivated by the desire to find a bohemian character named Susan, whom she only knew of by what was posted in a newspaper personal column.  Her overwhelming desire allows her to overcome overwhelming odds to find her and some rare Egyptian earrings in a city (NY) of millions.

I've slept a few times in the 31 year since that movie debuted, and I can't guarantee my memory of the ins and outs of the plot, but I am pretty sure of the underlying notion of having a deep desire to find someone causing one to set out on a quest that would settle for nothing less than success.

The movie was just a movie and while it was rated as one of the top 10 in 1985, I'm not even sure I would recommend it today.  But I do recommend the intensity of the search but not for Susan, rather for the Savior - our Lord and God, Jesus Christ.  For if you seek him with that kind of intensity, no matter how far you've wandered from truth or fallen from grace, you will find him.

Moses, knowing he would not enter the Promise Land with Israel, warned them of being influenced by the indigenous pagans to wander from God and embrace their corrupt lifestyle and false worship of idols along with the scattering of the people which would result assured them: "But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul" (Deut 4:29).

However distant you may be from our Lord at this moment, however far you've fallen from his glory, however lost and hopeless you may have or will have become, you are not too far because he wills to be found by you, he will not "leave you as an orphan" (Jn 14:18) but will keep his ear attentive to your call and will be at the end of your heart's journey of desire to find him.  Jus' Say'n.