Psalm 27:8
8 When thou saidst, Seek [baqash] ye my face [paniym]; my
heart [leb] said ['amar] unto thee, Thy face [paniym],
LORD [Yahovah], will I seek [baqash]. KJV-Interlinear
8 When
Thou didst say, "Seek My face," my heart said to Thee, "Thy
face, O Lord, I shall seek." NASB
God has commanded in the
scriptures, ‘seek my face,’ reflecting the commands from 1 Chron 16:11, and
Deut 4:29.
To seek God’s face, is a
phrase that means, genuinely desire and pursue knowledge and understanding and
wisdom, and a relationship with God that adds meaning and purpose and design to
one’s own life.
The heart, is symbolism
and a descriptive term, for the thoughts and intents activity of the soul.
What you think is what
you are. And you cannot think in spiritual terms, unless you have spiritual
information in your head.
David’s heart, or the
thoughts of his soul, contained what he has learned from the scriptures.
And the only way he
learned anything from the scriptures, was by reading them, but more importantly
by being taught their content.
We are commanded to seek
God. The only way you can seek God, is through a daily study from instruction,
of the word of God.
You cannot wish knowledge
on yourself. You cannot pretend knowledge within yourself. You cannot gain
spiritual knowledge unless you are taught, and learn it while in fellowship.
There is only one God.
There is only one Savior. There is only one faith. There is only one way to
grow up in the spiritual life. There is only one way to learn doctrine.
Anyone who shirks these
mandates of God, is a fool, is a pretender, and ultimately will be a failure.
Anyone who pursues God by
means of gimmicks, or games, or clubs, or socially acceptable activities, is
likewise a fool, and a pretender, which may impress people, but does not
impress God.
God looks on the soul, and
examines its content.
Pretense and
superficiality produce an empty soul.
God is impressed by only
one thing, which is his word. Therefore, assimilate doctrine into your soul,
for that is the only way that you will gain acceptance from God.
