{"id":2227,"date":"2018-02-22T05:59:15","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T13:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2018-02-22T05:59:15","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T13:59:15","slug":"how-to-seek-and-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2018\/how-to-seek-and-find\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Seek and Find"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I got to Psalm 53 in my morning reading.<\/p>\n<p>My thoughts branched out from there&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>God looked down from heaven upon the children of men,<br \/>\nto see if there were any that did understand,<br \/>\nthat did seek God.<br \/>\n(Psalm 53:2)<\/p>\n<p>And unto man he said,<br \/>\nBehold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom;<br \/>\nand to depart from evil is understanding.<br \/>\n(Job 28:28)<\/p>\n<p>When thou saidst, Seek ye my face;<br \/>\nmy heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.<br \/>\n(Psalm 27:8)<\/p>\n<p>Seek ye the LORD while he may be found,<br \/>\ncall ye upon him while he is near:<br \/>\n(Isaiah 55:6)<\/p>\n<p>And ye shall seek me,<br \/>\nand find me,<br \/>\nwhen ye shall search for me with all your heart.<br \/>\n(Jeremiah 29:13)<\/p>\n<p>But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness;<br \/>\nand all these things shall be added unto you.<br \/>\n(Matthew 6:33)<\/p>\n<p>In all thy ways acknowledge him,<br \/>\nand he shall direct thy paths.<br \/>\n(Proverbs 3:6)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now what?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/eafdotnet_pantinghart_2018_how-to-seek-and-find.jpg\" alt=\"Seek and find He who isn&#039;t playing hide-and-seek!\" width=\"574\" height=\"605\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/eafdotnet_pantinghart_2018_how-to-seek-and-find.jpg 574w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/eafdotnet_pantinghart_2018_how-to-seek-and-find-142x150.jpg 142w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/eafdotnet_pantinghart_2018_how-to-seek-and-find-285x300.jpg 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God isn&#8217;t playing hide-and-seek.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[86],"tags":[96,40,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-2227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-collage","7":"tag-aspiration","8":"tag-assurance","9":"tag-live-right","10":"h-entry","11":"hentry","12":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-zV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}