410. The Lord will Turn to us
Zechariah 1:3 Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the Lord of hosts.
That the Lord will turn to us is really an unconditional promise. He is always ready and willing to turn to us, to pay attention to us, to listen to us. The only issue is whether we are turning to Him. We are not always ready or willing to turn to the Lord. And if we are not turned to Him we are not tuned in; we may not be paying attention to the attention He is giving us; we may not be listening when He is speaking.
The Lord gives us the promise of turning so that we may be encouraged to turn to Him. He promises to hear; He will pay attention; He listens. His constant turning to us moves us to turn to Him. If we are stubborn in our hard-hearted self-sufficiency we may refuse to turn to the Lord for help in time of need, and certainly not when we feel we have no need.
We need to turn to the Lord. The Biblical truth, however, is that the Lord is the one who turns us. When people seek the Lord they do not realize that it is the Lord who is moving them to seek. If we found the Lord, it is actually the Lord who has found us. If we decide to follow Jesus, it is really He who has overcome our will to make it soft enough to turn and decide to receive Jesus as Savior. It appears to us that God is turning toward us because we are sincerely and eagerly turning to Him, but the truth is that He is always seeking us, turning to us, finding us, saving us, helping us, and answering our prayers. And then He opens the eyes of faith to see that the Lord is right there already. What it looks like and feels like is different than what it actually is. It is the Lord that is doing all the turning: He turns us to Him and He turns toward us.
God has turned to us; God is always turning toward us; and God promises He will turn to us in every future time of need. Jesus never fails. He will not turn His back; He will turn His eyes and His hands toward us. Count on it.