Questions and Answers

Can God be found by those who seek Him or not?

In this case, Proverbs 1:28, the context has been ignored. Those who laugh, scoff, and refuse wisdom are not going to magically find it when calamity strikes. Verse 24-25 says when you reject me when I called, ignored all my advice and would not accept my rebuke, then these things will happen.

If one wishes to identify wisdom with God, the same principle holds - those who scoff, reject, and laugh at God are not going to find God when calamity strikes. After all, if they look, they look through the filters of selfishness (ie, "save my butt").

Instead of calling on God or looking for God, they should be repenting. But those who live a life of scorning God are not those who repent when disaster strikes.

    God is not to be found by those who seek himGod is to be found by those who seek him