God is there to be found by those who seek him. But when you seek God, you must ensure that you understand who it is that you seek. Seeking God is quite different to seeking other things. For, in many other cases, you seek something that you desire to have and to own. But we can only find God to the extent that we are willing to be owned by him. When we seek God, we are not seeking a genie who waits on us. Rather we seek God upon whom we must wait. To know God is to be overpowered by him, for he is absolute power and sovereignty. If you seek God whilst holding onto your autonomy then you are effectively seeking him with your hands over your eyes. You would be refusing to see what you seek. To seek God is also to seek the one upon whom we are most fundamentally dependent. God is our greatest need. If you seek God without a sense of your absolute need for him then, again, you have closed your eyes to reality. If you pursue God as a curiosity, for a religious experience, to get something, then you will not find God because you are not really looking for God. In these cases, you would be looking for a means to some further end. But God is the ultimate end. To be a true seeker your heart must know that God is the ultimately desirable one, the one you truly need and the source of all your joy. The heart of the seeker is one of single-minded desperation and desire for God.
Ask God to deepen your sense of need for him.
Read Psalm 61.
