Seek Your Face Psalm 24:6

6 This is Jacob, the generation of those who seek Him, Who seek Your face. Selah


David writes, “this is Jacob, the generation of those that seek Him, who seek Your face.” This phrase is also found in II Chronicles 7:14 where the Chronicler writes, “if my people who are called by My name shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear their cry from heaven and I will forgive their sin and I will heal their land.” What does it mean to “seek His face?

This Psalm is a song to come into the presence of the Lord. When we do that, we become a blessing to God as He is able to bless us and make us a blessing to one another. This is singularly the purpose of life, period. To seek God’s face is to come into His presence in a special way. We come to God in a number of ways. Most often we come to Him seeking His hands, seeking His help and His provisions and His protection and all the things that He can do for us. We are supposed to come to Him in this manner. He wants us to come to Him allowing Him to do all these things for us.

However, coming in to His presence alone brings His protection and His provisions! To seek His face is to come to Him looking into His eyes instead of looking at His hands. God delights in seeing us come to Him because of all that He has already done for us, and not for what we want Him to do for us. He delights in our coming to Him as Mary did when she came and sat at His feet and listened to Him talk about His love for her. When we make Him the focus of our lives and we make His way a priority and we determine to have clean hands and a pure heart not tarnished by the lure of this world, He is able to bless us and do the things for us and with us that He desires to do.

God is looking today for the generation of Jacob that are willing to seek Him and seek His face and find a relationship with Him and His Spirit that dwells inside us and is leading us and guiding us and wanting to bless us indeed!