Psalm 27:8
When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.

What a sweet thing a willing heart is. What a joy it must bring to God’s heart when He reaches out to us and we respond, when He calls us to come closer, to know Him better, and we earnestly seek Him. What delight He must find in our fellowship when we turn aside from the selfish demands of our days and focus solely on Him. How pleased He must be when we dig deep into His Word and find just what we need and go through our day victorious in Him. He is our loving Father who savors every moment spent with His children.

Is ours a daily pursuit of God? Are we seeking Him to the exclusion of all others? Is He the one we want the most and the one we are striving to please? When He calls to us, do we hear? Do we listen? Do we respond? It all originates from our heart and how willing we are to engage with Him. It can’t be just a casual thing we kind of pursue on the side along with all the other things we desire in life. It’s really about choosing God over our family, over our friends, over our stuff, over ourselves.

The Holy Spirit is at work, prodding us and working in us, adjusting things in our hearts. When He touches a sore spot, we have to make a choice whether to turn away from Him or get closer as He chips away, molding us into His image. When we disobey and He chastens us, we have to decide whether to keep going in the wrong direction or turn back and see what new thing we can learn from it. When a storm comes or tragedy strikes and we wonder if He’s even there, we have to decide whether to listen for His voice on the breeze or give up because it’s too hard to have faith.

Sometimes such a simple truth is so hard for us to grasp—God loves us. He pursues us, and He wants us to pursue Him. He seeks us, and He wants us to seek Him. Certainly we’ve all been ignored at times in our lives, left out, cast aside. Will we treat God that way? Will we ignore Him when there are other people to talk to, other things to do? Will we leave Him out of our plans and try to forge our own path? Will we cast Him aside in pursuit of something else? He’s made a request to each of us: “Seek My face.” So, will we?