Intently Looking For The Face Of Our Creator

Have you ever thought about what it means to look for the face of someone? What is the significance of the face? I say it has to do with honest relationship. Looking at someones face implies connection. The face has eyes to see, a nose to smell, a mouth to communicate and the ears on the side of the face to hear with. Those are all essential for relationship.

I was in worship and prayer with a small group like I am most Friday nights. As the Spirit led the time we found ourselves corporately, intently looking for the face of our Creator. We were not asking for anything but we wanted to know God more and to be in deep relationship with the one who made us. We were seeking like King David in the Psalms.

“One thing have I asked of the Lord,
    that will I seek after:
that I may dwell in the house of the Lord
    all the days of my life,
to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord
    and to inquire in his temple.” Psalm 27:4

On and off for days I took time to meditate more deeply on David’s yearnings in Psalm 27. Just a few verses later he continues:

You have said, “Seek my face.”
My heart says to you,
    “Your face, Lord, do I seek.” Psalm 27:8

I found myself admitting that, yes I seek the face of God, but how intently? We all go through times that are less passionate. Sometimes I seek His hand to help me, or other things to fill places in me that are meant for my Creator alone to fill. That worship and prayer night re-ignited a fresh measure of hunger in me that had dulled with the stuff of life.

You may not have that same option, however, there are many ways to seek His face. What draws you to the living God? How can you re-ignite your hunger to dwell in the presence of the Lord and to gaze on His beauty?

Father, Son and Holy Spirit forgive me for not seeking your face like I need to (for my own sake and for our relationship).  I have sought your hand, your vision, your revelation, your forgiveness, your approval, and so many things that have not even been primarily about a deeper relationship with you! I have escaped with distractions and tried to rest where there is no real rest. Forgive me for attempting, fruitlessly, to fill voids in me that are meant to be filled with you alone. I choose to seek your face, to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life and to gaze on your beauty.