1 Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name; make known among the nations what he has done. 2 Sing to him, sing praise to him; tell of all his wonderful acts. 3 Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice. 4 Look to the LORD and his strength; seek his face always.
God wants us to come along with Him on an incredible adventure, in which we can know and experience the living God, to be directed by His Spirit and carried away in His love. If we search for Him and desire to grow deeper in Him with a pure and earnest heart, then He promises, I believe, that we can know Him better.
Ephesians 3 says:
17b I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge--that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
You may have heard, Kirk Cameron has made a new documentary film, and there's a special premiere coming up tomorrow night at hundreds of theaters across America. It's called, "Monumental: The Search for America's National Treasure", and it depicts his search for the presence of God and Biblical truth in the foundations of our nation. He writes on his website: "I'm retracing the footsteps of our Founders from England to America in the hope of discovering our true 'national treasure.' I want to listen to them, to learn from them...Because I suspect our Forefathers knew we were a forgetful people, that someday we would lose our way as a nation. So they left us a map that would guide us back to the source of America's success."
The opening is tomorrow night at 6:30 at the Rave in Montgomery with a live event. The movie itself will open this Friday, March 30th, and the Rave will be one of just a few theaters nationwide that will be showing it.
Well, there's another Cameron in the news who has been involved in a search, an adventure, if you will. And, he's in the movie business, too - that would be James Cameron, director of the films, "Avatar" and "Titanic" - and even though his claim to have found the tomb of Jesus a few years ago has been widely refuted, he did have a successful mission recently, taking a specially-designed submarine to the deepest place in the ocean - the Marianas trench. In fact, today on "Revive Our Hearts", there was a message from Nancy Leigh DeMoss about the last expedition to try to comb the depths of the trench...in 1960 - that mission did not quite make it, but Cameron was successful, going 7 miles beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean.
Both Camerons were involved in an adventurous search - Kirk for the some of the deep roots of our nation, and James for the ocean floor at incredible depths. And, I believe their quests can remind us of the search that God would like for us to embark upon - seeking to experience His presence of the depths of His love, and to come along with Jesus on a life-changing adventure to know His heart and the follow in His ways.
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