By Searching

This is a little something that Jess and I have each enjoyed recently. We brought the book, By Searching, along with us, not realizing how good it would be to read it. I felt like it was "sent" to me at a perfect time:

When is the Search ended? In one sense, it is finished when our hand, stretched out to God in the name of His appointed mediator Jesus Christ, feels the answering grasp and knows that He is there. But in another sense the searching never ends, for the first discovery is quickly followed by another, and that by another, and so it goes on. As I write it is dawning a new day. The far horizon has seen the bright spot of the rising sun, but heavy clouds soon covered it. However, these clouds have become illuminated and streaks of pink and gold beauty are breaking through chance rents in their filmy cover. One discovers glory after glory as the eye eagerly explores the heavens. And so it is with God. To find that He is, is the mere starting-point of our search. We are lured on to explore what He is, and that search is never finished, and it grows more thrilling the farther one proceeds.
Up to this point I have discovered that God is; and that He is mine by the mediatorship of Christ. I have discovered that He can and will teach me His way, or His plan for my life. I have found that He can overcome obstacles and that we do not need to arouse a great hullabaloo to get Him to do so. Hudson Taylor was right in his discover: "learn to move man, through God, by prayer alone." By searching I have discovered that He has strange and sweet ways of manifesting Himself; at sundry [various or many] times and in diverse manners God is still speaking (Heb. 1:1)
~Isobel Kuhn