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Psalm 27: 8 My heart says of you, “Seek his
face!” Your face, Lord, I will seek. (NIV)
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Once you have seen his face you will forever long to see it again.* |
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My daughter-in-law posts pictures of my new granddaughter
almost every day. All I have to do is login to Facebook and I can see that
precious little girl. I am thankful for modern technology which allows us to
stay in touch even when we can’t be together. But nothing can take the place of
face-to-face, in-person interaction with someone you love. In this psalm, David
expresses that longing to be in the presence of God and to see his face. But in
Exodus 33: 20, God told Moses, “You cannot see my face, for no one may see me
and live.”
In the 1985 movie Cocoon,
a group of extra-terrestrial aliens has come to earth on some unfinished
business. They don’t actually have bodies – they’re just wispy, shapeless
beings – so they inhabit human bodies in order to accomplish their mission
without alarming the people around them. Similarly, God is spirit and he has no
physical body in which to move about among his people – until he inhabited the
body of Jesus. Before Jesus shed his physical body, he promised to send his
Spirit to dwell in his people.
In Ephesians 2: 22, Paul writes that we are being built to
become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit. Now, when we long to seek
God’s face, we find him looking out from the faces of his faithful followers.
If we find God’s face by looking into the faces of his people, then we should
also see his face looking back at us from the mirror. Next time you work on
your hair or brush your teeth, examine your face more closely. If you don’t see
the face of God, perhaps you need to take some time to seek his face and his
presence in your life. He rewards those who earnestly seek him (Hebrews 11: 6).
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He takes his children to higher levels of fellowship so they may hear him speaking “face to face.”* |
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