SEEKING THE CREATOR'S FACE

Knowing the Creator of all things including our souls is possible! But how? God revealed to King David that to know him and to be close to him requires a personal endeavor of seeking his face...

When a person begins to 'let go' of their ideas of who God is and starts to accept the truth of who he is their heart begins to shift into the condition necessary that develops 'ears that will hear' and 'eyes that will see' all truth including spiritual truth. This heart condition cries, "I just want to know my Creator. Give me the truth about who he is!" The awesome reality is that the Spirit of God is wanting to reveal to each one of us individually about himself that he is personable, reachable and can be known intimately when we decide to accept the Truth about how he has made himself known to us. The daily discovery of the death of our 'self' is what all of this hinges on, and the questions to be answered are:

• Am I willing to die to my 'self' completely and in absolute surrender receive the truth of God that he has given to me in the bible?
• Am I willing to read the bible for myself and accept the truth about how God has made himself known to me?

When the Creator says to David, "Seek My Face" he has a very specific meaning in that. This call from our loving God is to hunger and thirst for the lifestyle that is a perfect reflection of his image and an exact representation of his likeness. In other words God is saying to all of us, "If you want to know me hunger and thirst for the One who's lifestyle exactly represents who I am."

• Are you willing to say that your lifestyle or the lifestyle of anyone you know is a perfect reflection of the likeness of God?
• Is there a person, in all of history, whose lifestyle reflected the likeness of God perfectly?

PSALM 27:8

• Is the Bride of Christ / The Church asleep or awake?
• How many Christians love the Lord but sense there is something missing in their lives?
• Would the Bride of Christ / The Church say that their Pastor/Teacher is seeking the Jesus in the Bible?
• Can faithful Pastor/Teachers say the people filling the meeting place are seeking the Jesus in the Bible?
• Are Christians leaving church feeling that their soul is downcast with unmet spiritual longing?
• Are Pastor/Teachers being pressured to put on a program for the "sensitive seeker"?
• Is the Church wherever the Lord's presence is manifested?
• Is God's house a house of prayer?
• Have you made your house one of prayer?
• Is your heart set to seek the Lord's beauty until you get to know him?
• Can you say, "I'll fix my eyes on him until I see something that so attracts me I know it will satisfy me to the end?

David saw the barriers that were in the way of him and the people truly getting to know God. He knew going to the priests over the matter would not fix the problem, and he knew abandoning the house of the Lord would not correct it. So he went and made his own house one of prayer and sought for the uninterrupted communion with his God. Then God answered simply, "Seek My Face". Verse 8. Seeking God's face means seeking his reflection or his likeness. Learning of God by reading the bible, living out biblical principals, praying to him for understanding, waiting on him in faith, and accepting and loving the truth about Jesus Christ are required in seeking God's face. David responded to God, " When you said, 'Seek My Face,' my heart leaped in response. My heart said to you, 'Your face, Lord, I will seek.'"