Seeking God or Solutions?

When Jesus spoke about living water, the Samaritan woman thought about her immediate need.

She wanted to stop being thirsty. She wanted to stop having to come back to the well. In that moment, she was still looking at things from the outside.

That happens to us too.

Many times, we seek God when we want an answer, direction, relief, or change. We come to Him because of a real need, and that is not a small thing. But Jesus did not come only to solve problems. He came to lead us into a real encounter with God.

Christ’s invitation goes deeper than the search for a solution. He calls us out of a faith based only on need and into a life where God holds first place.

That is why, in Matthew 6:33, Jesus says:

“Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness.”

That word puts the heart in the right place.

Seeking God is not only about wanting what He can do. It is about wanting to know Him. It is about wanting to live under His will. It is about understanding that He is not only the answer for a hard moment, but the Lord over all of life.

When God stops being only someone we run to in times of need and becomes the center of our life, something changes inside us. The way we think changes. The way we live changes. The way we see everything changes too.

Today, it is worth stopping and asking honestly:

Are you seeking God

or only what you hope to receive from Him?

25 ¶ ‹Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?›

26 ‹Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?›

27 ‹Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?›

28 ‹And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:›

29 ‹And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.›

30 ‹Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven,› [shall he] ‹not much more› [clothe] ‹you, O ye of little faith?›

31 ‹Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?›

32 ‹(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.›

33 ‹But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.›

34 ‹Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day› [is] ‹the evil thereof.›

10 Jesus answered and said unto her, ‹If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.›

11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?

12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?

13 Jesus answered and said unto her, ‹Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:›

14 ‹But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.›

15 The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.