July 20, 2025 -- Psalm 27:7-9a -- Seek the LORD--invitation and command

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Hear, O LORD, when I cry aloud;
be gracious to me and answer me!
You have said, “Seek my face.”
My heart says to you,
“Your face, LORD, do I seek.”
Hide not your face from me.
Psalm 27:7-9a ESV
 
Today is Sunday. I’m wishing every one of you a blessed Sunday. Listen to the invitation and the command issued in these verses. The Psalmist is asking God to hear him when he cries out to the LORD his God. Look at the response of God. He commands the petitioner: seek! my face! It is imperative. It is a requirement. It demands that the one who cries to the LORD will get motivated, rousing himself from laziness to activity.
 
The response of the psalmist is wonderful. He responds immediately in his heart. The heart is the place where he makes the most important decisions of his life and having made them, acts on them. The psalmist responds that he will seek the LORD. The sense here is not that such seeking is a once-a-day quick prayer action. The seeking of the LORD requires intentionality through-out the day. Seeking the LORD means one is focused on Him and desiring Him above all other activities or things in life. Seek the LORD today!

  • Get to church today.

  • Spend time in prayer.

  • Look for Christian friends and talk about God.

  • Through-out the day ask yourself, in what I am doing now, am I seeking the LORD?


    Thank You, Gracious Father, for both the command to seek You and the promise that You will be found by those who seek You^. Thank You for the open gathering of Your people at churches and secret meetings of Your people in places of persecution. Spirit of God, assist Your people to seek for Jesus with whole-hearted determination so that through union with Him we are brought to the Father. O LORD, You are the Light and Salvation of Your people, no other treasure is as precious and glorious as knowing You. Amen.
    ^Jeremiah 29:13
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