I am very pleased to present a guest post by Ricky Lovestrand of https://religiousnutspiritual.com/ . I hope you enjoy his post here, and that you will check out his blog linked abouve.

How should a genuine seeker go about finding God? As it often does, the Bible gives us a
wonderfully simple and mysterious answer. If a person wants to find God, he must seek him
with all his heart and soul (Deuteronomy 4:29). And yet, if anyone would come to Jesus, it must
be granted by the Father (John 6:44). Two things must happen: a person must seek God, and
God must reveal himself. But just what should it look like exactly for a person to seek God with
all his heart and soul? Today when the term “seeker” comes up, we think of people who have
genuine curiosity or openness to religion. But the Bible does not say that God is looking for
“seekers.” He is looking for worshippers. And he will not reveal himself to anybody based on
whatever terms a person may dictate. In this short post, I won’t offer a comprehensive treatise
on how to seek God. But I would like to offer one essential part of the answer. God will not be
found by men and women who do not have humble hearts. A person must go low to meet the
Most High God.
The Bible frames the pursuit of God as always something more than an intellectual quest.
Perhaps the only person who radically encounters God in his pride is Paul, who is then
transformed with humility afterwards. The normative pattern we see in scripture is
encountering God through lowliness. God himself said “I dwell in the high and holy place, and
also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit” (Isaiah 57:15). It is the humble and faith-
filled persistence of the Syrophoenician woman who finds God in a miraculous healing. It is only
through his humility and repentance that David can find fresh fellowship with God once again.
God is even moved by the humble prayer of King Manasseh, despite his wickedness, to bring
him back to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then there’s the wise men, who come looking for Jesus
but doing so as worshippers. This echoes CS Lewis’ insight, “A proud man is always looking
down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see
something that is above you.” The modern conception of someone who seeks God as a mere
intellectual enterprise is completely foreign to scripture. And the irony is that seeking for God
merely intellectually could easily inflate a man’s pride. As his heart lifts itself higher, he may, as
Lewis wrote, find himself looking down on things and people—and missing what is above him.
But where does this leave the unbeliever? Shall he humble himself and call out to God in prayer
like David and King Manasseh? He should.
But here we run into a problem. We may say a non-believer could find God through prayer. But
how can a non-believer pray to a God he doesn’t yet believe exists? Shall we ask him to sacrifice
his intellectual honesty and integrity? Should he just fake it till he makes it? We’ve got a circular
problem. Unbelief is short circuiting the very channel through which he may be granted belief!
What are we to do?

Scripture itself provides a precedent for praying to God even if you don’t have clarity about his
character. Paul writes in Romans 1 that based on creation alone, it is evident that there is some
very powerful and eternal being. This fact by itself Paul says, is enough to obligate a person to
give thanks to such a being. I would argue that the non-believer does not need to pretend that
he believes in such a God. He does not need to fake it. There are enough reasons to make it
reasonable (such that his intellectual honesty would not need to be sacrificed) to humbly reach
out to such a God in prayer. Similarly, a non-Christian does not need to embrace every point of
the traditional doctrine of sin in order to humble himself. Our consciences bear witness to us
that we have fallen short of the glory of God. The seeker may not use that language, and that
seems fine to me. The point is that all of us are intimately acquainted with our shortcomings. I
believe that confessing them and sincerely reaching out this eternal and powerful being can be
done sincerely by an open, but non-Christian seeker. There’s no need at this point to embrace
every part of Christian doctrine. What’s needed is a contrite and lowly spirit. And if such a
seeker is willing to go low, and then even lower, he will find the one who has been highly
exalted and given “the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee
should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus
Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:10-11).