Daily Devotion

June 10, 2006

Psalms 27:7-8  Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.  (8)  When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.

In the morning, flowers and plants open up to the light and warmth of the sun.  They know naturally that their “prayers” will be answered if they turn themselves to “seek the face” of the sun.  Both their color and their scent are tuned to their need for sun and pollination.

My beloved friend, is your need expressed by the “cry of your voice” in sincere and honest prayer to God worth less than that of a mere flower, which at the end of every season withers? Is it worth less than that of the grass which fades away (Is 40:8)? And tell me now: how would you like for one to make a request to you while at the same time looking away at the ground, or at the people passing by rather than at your face?  Wouldn’t you feel that your friend only came to you because he needed something, but that he didn’t really appreciate the time spent in your presence and fellowship?

Hear a lesson from the garden, my friend; hear a lesson from the flowers of the fields, from the grass in the meadow.  Hear the lesson imbedded in the humanity that God has created

In answer to the psalmist’s prayer, the LORD said, seek ye my face (ye=plural “you”.  The LORD made a corporate request, David answered on personal level.)   How many times do we pray to the LORD, looking “away”, for the answer?  Or how many times do we pray to the LORD, like the Pharisees of old, looking “away” in consciousness of the people around us (Mat 6:5)? The LORD said, “Seek ye my face!”

Oh, that you would seek the face of God!  Like Moses’, it would shine with the glory of His presence (Ex 34:29); it would reflect a faith and a confidence more sure than the seeing of the eye, than the hearing of the ear (2 Pet 1:19).  For how can you worry, how can you fret when you look at the LORD face to face in the secret temple of your prayer closet in your heart?  

The LORD’s answer to ALL your prayers is:  SEEK YE MY FACE!

Isaiah 55:1-3,6  Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.  (2)  Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.  (3)  Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.  

(6)  Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:



Patrick Lumbroso
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