Seek Him
As I was in my quiet time with the Lord, I came upon this verse: Psalm 27:8. The psalmist David writes
You have said, ‘Seek my face.’
My heart says to you, ’Your face, Lord, do I seek.’” (ESV)
Another translation says it this way:
My heart has heard you say, ‘Come and talk with me.’
And my heart responds, ‘LORD, I am coming.’” (NLT)
This is the state of a heart that is open to God. Open to his great love, open to his mercy, open to his discipline, open to his refining, open to his shaping. This is the state that I desire for my heart at all times.
So often, we get inundated with the noise of life. For me, it’s things like twitter, facebook, emails, business, church, etc. I’ve noticed a trend lately: when I arise in the morning, I find myself checking my emails, facebook and twitter to see what I’ve missed. When I go to bed at night, again I am checking these applications to make sure I didn’t miss anything throughout the day. But God would say to me “Come and talk with me; seek my face.” Don’t get me wrong, I do spend time in His Word on a daily basis. I even spend time in prayer; yet I need to adjust my priorities. The first and last thing I do during the day should not reflect a love for this world, rather should be to spend time with the one who loved me first, my Lord and Savior.
The Psalmist says in verse 4 “One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple.” David had it right: his intent was to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of his life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and inquire in his temple. In the Old Covenant, the temple was the place that housed the glory of the Lord, the shekinah presence. So David was saying, my desire is to constantly be in the presence of the Lord, to never leave it, to sit in awe of His presence and to seek His counsel at all times.
What’s so amazing about God is that He wants us to be in His presence at all times, He even invites us to be enter into His presence. He made available the way for us to have access to Himself by the ransom of His only son Jesus who paid the price for our sins and paved the way to restored relationship with Father God. It is because of His Great Love for us that Jesus came, died on the cross for our sins, and rose again to defeat death, hell and the grave. He did this so we could be restored to God and have relationship in His presence.
So what does all of this mean? It’s simple: I resolve to keep God on the throne of my heart. As He calls to me and says “Seek my face” my heart will respond “Your face Lord do I seek” and my actions will reflect this heartfelt response.
