From the book “A Year of Powerful Prayer”:
We are here to learn the lesson, also, that we are here to do the will of the Father. And how do we discover his will? How do we find Him? Pascal gave us a line: “You would not seek me had you not found me.” God is closer than we know, more truly concerned for us than we understand. And the best in us is better than we know and reaches out and up, seeking Him.
We worry about our faith, does He really exist? We worry about our worthiness: could He love me? We remember our sins: is He really willing to rescue a soul so rebellious and proud as mine?” (Hymns, 1985, no. 193.) We want to find Him. We should yield to His will. But how do we do that? How do we qualify for the relationship we so earnestly desire?
We do this though prayer, of course, and through studying the scriptures. I believe we can find Him best by learning to know the Christ, who seems nearer, who was “made flesh and dwelt among us.” and of whom Paul wrote that “God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself.” (2 Corinthians 5:19.) God was making Himself known through His Son. “If,” Paul declared to the Romans, “when we were enemies [that is, apart from God] we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, [how] much more, being reconciled [brought back into unison with Him], we shall be saved by His life.” (Romans 5:10) ~~Marion D. Hanks Finding God (of the Seventy) deceased (From the book ‘A Year of Powerful Prayer’ (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2013) p.45
