Now set your mind and heart to seek the Lord your God. It is the conscious fixing or focusing of our mind’s attention and our heart’s affection on God. But what does that mean practically? Both the Old and New Testaments say it is a “setting of the mind and heart” on God. This happens through “seeking.” Continual seeking. That is why we are told to “seek his presence continually.” God calls us to enjoy continual consciousness of his supreme greatness and beauty and worth. This condition is always ready to overtake us. His face - the brightness of his personal character - is hidden behind the curtain of our carnal desires. There are seasons when we become neglectful of God and give him no thought and do not put trust in him and we find him “unmanifested” - that is, unperceived as great and beautiful and valuable by the eyes of our hearts. God’s manifest, conscious, trusted presence is not our constant experience. seek his presence continually” (Psalm 105:4). For this reason, the Bible repeatedly calls us to “seek the Lord. When He’s Not with Usīut there is a sense in which God’s presence is not with us always. “Behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age” (Matthew 28:20). His power is ever-present in sustaining and governing all things.Īnd second, yes, he is always present with his children in the sense of his covenant commitment to always stand by us and work for us and turn everything for our good. Yes in two senses: First, in the sense that God is omnipresent and therefore always near everything and everyone.
To be before his face is to be in his presence.īut aren’t his children always in his presence? Yes and no. “Presence” is a common translation of the Hebrew word “face.” Literally, we are to seek his “face.” But this is the Hebraic way of having access to God. Seeking the Lord means seeking his presence.
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