Seek And You Will Find, Part 1


Have you ever stumbled onto something that was there all along? I mean, really there all along -- and you didn't even know it? That is how God's truth is. As we read the Bible, we find something new and exciting. At times, it simply takes our breath away, and at other times, it leaves us stunned in silence. We often ask, “How did I ever miss that?”

That has become a common response when we tell people where our new offices are located. We know of people who have driven past this location for over 50 years who never noticed that the building even existed. You really have to see it to believe it.

But, let's just think for a moment. How many people come to know Christ in their golden years? Many. Some have passed by church after church for over 50 years without ever knowing the opportunity that awaited them beyond the front door. Satan does an excellent job of keeping people away from churches. He causes confusion by pointing out that there are so many, and telling people the lie that they can always pick one “another day.” Unfortunately, every day, people who never experienced “another day” are placed into a grave.

It may seem strange to you that I am using these analogies for an article about our office location, but I want to show you some parallels that I feel the Holy Spirit has revealed to me as we have been refurbishing our office building.

Almost a full year after Micah and I sat down to discuss our Internet venture, we found ourselves developing a ministry with a main focus on training lay leaders in the local church by providing relative, modern-day Bible study materials. Just recently, we felt that it was time to move it from the spare rooms in our homes and into an actual business environment in order for people to see that it was real. We set out to find a building with some unique character, but after looking at approximately 25-30 office spaces, we were at a loss. Our choices were to buy a shell of a building and have it “up-fitted” for our particular purpose, or we would simply have to settle for a “plain vanilla box.”

We didn't know it at the time, but God was about to enable Micah, his dad and me to literally live out one of my favorite verses of Scripture:

Psalm 37:4 “Delight yourselves in the ways of the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart.”

The solution God would provide for us would surpass all our expectations and would provide things we hadn’t even dreamed we would be able to have. His plan was to provide more than just an office for Center Cross Creative.

Stay tuned for the rest of the story...