"Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near."

By videotape, a Bishop heard and saw a stranger deliver a sermon. When the sermon was over, the Bishop remarked, "There is a man who knows the Lord." When the preacher was told what the Bishop said, he remarked, "That is the finest compliment I have ever received." Could the same be said of you? Would you like to have it said of you? It cannot be said unless you know God. To know God is to find him and to find him is to seek him. Thus, in our text, Isaiah says, "Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near." Before you and I seek the Lord, there must be a hunger and desire to know and have God, as the Psalmist yearns, "As a heart longs for flowing streams, so longs my soul for them, O God. My soul …