Lost Sinners Looking For God in Our Day Seems Similar to John 12:21 (Gentiles) Seek Jesus

There seems to be a lot of lost sinners in our day that seem to be hungry for God. The funny thing is that they often try harder to encounter God then many of the people in church today. I have heard of great links people have gone to just to try to get an experience with God.

I have been involved in homeless ministry for a few years and have just heard some really heart touching stories. I also have heard so pretty bizarre ideas of how to get a hold of God. It seems the more I talk with drug addicts, that when they first become religious the think drugs bring them closer to God.

I have heard of stories of people getting high before they read their Bible so they can get better insight to what they are about to read. I have heard of people wanting to sniff lines while reading the Bible for a better spiritual encounter. In fact, when I was coming off Meth, I used to do the same thing.

I am in no ways condoning this misuse of the Bible and it truly is horrible theology, but to them that are lost it seems to make since. But I do believe God sees their hunger, as he did mine, and will get them out of drugs, alcohol, adultery, pornography, what ever their vice may be.

This story of John 12:21 is about Greeks coming to see Jesus, meanwhile the people Jesus was sent to, rejected him. It is interesting that at the same time his own people were rejecting him, his fame was spreading through out the land so much people were coming from afar to see him.

At this point in Jesus life he was not willing to receive honor from Gentiles because he was not yet glorified. Since I am not an Israelite according to the flesh, this scripture must be interpreted spiritually to apply to me and the church.

It now is after the day that Jesus has been glorified so gentiles are now accepted into the kingdom of God. I thank God for that being a gentile myself. I think this text also shows the hunger that is in the human soul to have an encounter with God, not matter what the race of social status may be. This shows that God wanted not only to save the Jew, but the Gentile too. This could be a correct interpretation of this scripture, but I also think the scripture speaks even deeper than that.

It seems that Israelites are a type of the church, and the Gentiles are type of the people still in the world.
It almost seems like people that have been raised in the church sometimes don’t understand or possibly just take for granted that greatness of the message proclaimed from our pulpits.

It seems people that are in the world sometimes seem to be hungrier to have an encounter with Christ than the people in the church. Many times new converts want to go to church almost everyday because than cannot get enough of the presence of God, while people in the church most of their lives sometimes seem to want to have less church.