Deepest Division

200 Words: ‘What are you seeking?’

John the Baptist purposefully identifies Jesus as the ‘Lamb of God’:

The two disciples heard him say this, and they followed Jesus. Jesus turned and saw them following and he said to them, ‘What are you seeking?’ (John 1)

Peter Kreeft makes a startling observation in our supposedly post-belief world:

For us, the clearest division seems to be the visible one between atheists and theists, unbelievers and believers, between those who have found God and those who have not.

For God, the deepest division is the invisible one between seekers and non-seekers. For seeking is done with the heart, and God alone knows the secrets of every heart (Food for the Soul, 144).

Western nations report rising agnosticism and atheism, but there is a great silence about the act of seeking.

Why?

Jesus himself respects and loves those who are seekers and searchers, precisely because it is wisdom:

Ask and you will receive. Seek and you will find. Knock and the door will be opened (Matthew 7).

Kreeft again:

All who truly seek the true God, the God not of power but goodness and love, will find him – if not in this life, then in the next.

Amen.