Finding Yahweh

"Before any person can begin seriously to pursue God, God must first pursue him or her. Before anyone can begin seriously to seek God, God must already have begun to seek him or her." (Tozer)
I wonder how many of us go about our daily lives thinking we have to "meet Yahweh" in a certain place or at a certain time. Oh how we put him in a box so often. And for what? Because we as humans, with our limited minds, cannot grasp a God so big that he has no beginning and no end. Our brains cannot comprehend that. So to make Yahweh seem more plausible, more explainable, we create a beginning and an end. We give Yahweh definition and think up rules and laws to apply to him. As if he lives by rules. As if our laws could govern him.
I wonder if we even realise that as we try to shove Yahweh in a box, it is not the real God we're trying to control. Yahweh is not even where we think he is.
I wonder if you realise that God is everywhere, in everything. He is in a smile, in the wind, in a voice, in a song, in someone's tears, in a child, in the flowers of the fields. He has created everything. This creation is a piece of him. We are a reflection of our Father. We have his spiritual DNA flowing through our veins.
I wonder how often we live life and forget about God. We don't see him for who he is. We don't recognise his presence all around us because we live under the falsehood and religious tradition that Yahweh's presence only exists when we beg him for it. How sad that idea is.
Freedom will come when we throw all our misconceptions out the window and take God for who he really is instead of what religion tells us he is.
Think of Jacob, as he was running for his life after deceiving his father and stealing his brother's birthright, and Yahweh appeared to him in a dream to make a great promise of land and descendants. When Jacob awoke, he uttered these words: "Surely the Lord is present in this place, and I did not know it!" (Genesis 28:16) The text goes on to say, "Shaken, he said, 'How awesome is this place! There is none other than the abode of God, and that is the gateway to heaven.' "
"God had been there all the time. The problem was that Jacob did not know it." (Tozer)

How often do we live life without Yahweh because we fail to realise he is already a part of it? No begging is required, no hours of intense prayer to "see his face" or "know his will".
Who is Yahweh? Look at the life of Yeshua to know that.
"Yeshua said, 'I AM the way - and the Truth and the Life; no one comes to the Father except through me. Because you have known me, you will also know my Father; from now on, you do know him - in fact, you have seen him.' Philip said to him, 'Lord, show us the Father, and it will be enough for us.' Yeshua replied to him, 'Have I been with you so long without your knowing me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father; so how can you say, "Show us the Father"? Don't you believe that I am united with the Father, and the Father united with me?' "(John 14:6-10)

Through Yeshua we see Yahweh. And I ask you, how can we claim to be "followers of Yahweh" unless we know Yeshua?
Seek and you will find. Why? Because he is already there. He is in everything.

Selah.