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 their hearts up towards the light and warmth of the sun. They know, in their natural way that their ‘prayers’ will be answered if, and only 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.
Is our need, expressed by the ‘cry of our voice’ in sincere and honest prayer to God worth less than that of a mere flower, which withers at the end of every season? Is it worth less than that of the grass which fades away (Isaih 40:8)? And tell me now: how do we like for one to make a request to us 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?
Let’s hear this lesson from the garden now. Let’s hear this lesson from the flowers of the fields, from the grass in the meadow. Let’s hear this lesson imbedded in the humanity that God has created as a great teacher of His principles.
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 (Matthew 6:5)? The Lord said, “Seek ye my face.”
Oh, that we would seek the face of God. Like Moses’, it would shine with the glory of His presence (Exodus 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 Peter 1:19). For how can we worry, how can we fret when we look at the Lord face to face in the secret temple of our heart?
The Lord’s basic answer to all of our 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:
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