Acts 17: Noble Character

Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true. -Acts 17:11 NIV

From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. 'For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’ -Acts 17:26-28 NIV

We need to have the noble character of the Bereans.  They heard the message and took it to heart, but they didn't stop there.  They searched.  They examined the Scriptures daily.  They did not accept the gift they had been given lightly.  Instead they knew that this gift required something in return.  They knew that even after finding God, they still had to reach for something higher.  Something that could be revealed only by the scriptures.  This truth was not delivered by any preacher or evangelist, not even the Apostle Paul.  It was not received by reading another Christian novel, not by reading any of the many books that fill the Christian bookstores, it was not even to be found by reading the greatest Christian apologists of the time.  The truth, the closer relationship with  God was only to be found by examining the scriptures. 

God wants his people to reach out for him, to seek him, to find him.  Do we have the noble character which that requires?