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If you’re anything like me you spend a fair bit of time looking, searching, and seeking after things that elude you. Keys, wallet, cell-phone, overdue library books, USB flash drive, sunglasses…
Sometimes we seek small things, sometimes we seek big things. The right job, the right partner, the right house, the right school…
Sometimes the things we seek are not things at all. Meaning, significance, authenticity, joy, love, stability, peace…
The human species is a species of seekers. Once we get food, shelter and clothing figured out we move on to the next thing. We’re always seeking something. Have you ever noticed that there’s a difference between the way you search for a nickel and the way you search for your passport when you’ve misplaced it at the airport? Or that the way that an unemployed person scours the classifieds is far different from the way the patron a coffee house peruses the dessert menu?
Here’s why: The intensity of our search varies according to our understanding of the worth of what we seek. It we seek something of little value, we will seek it with little intensity. If we seek something of great value, we will seek it with all our heart.
In Psalm 27:8 God gives us an incredible invitation. He says to us “Seek my face”. The infinite, indescribable, inestimable, incredible God of the universe invites to seek His face. How you respond to that invitation is one the most important decisions you will ever make. The only proper response is a response like David’s, to say with your heart, and from your heart, “Your face LORD do I seek”. If we aren’t seeking God’s face with all of our heart we don’t truly comprehend God’s infinite worth. If God is who He says He is, then we must seek His face at all costs with the greatest intensity, with the utmost joy, and with the purest devotion. This all-encompassing search is ultimately concluded in Jesus Christ, who’s face emanates “the light of the knowledge of the glory of God” (2 Corinthians 4:6).
Until the day that we step into eternity and come before His throne to “worship Him” and to “see His face” (Revelation 22:3-4) we at Harvest Bible Chapel we are committed to SEEKING HIS FACE with all our heart.
We will seek His face through His word.
We will seek His face through worship.
We will seek His face in prayer.
We will seek His face by sharing His message.
SEEKING HIS FACE (Psalm 27:8) is our theme as a church for the 2011-2012 ministry year. May it also be theme of your life.
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