“My heart says of you, ‘Seek his face!’ Your face, LORD, I will seek” (Psalm 27:8). This verse clearly reflects the title of our current sermon series in David: “After God’s Heart.”
David’s greatest desire and longing was to “dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to seek him in his temple” (Psalm 27:4).
Why? Why did David seek the LORD with his whole heart? In Psalm 138:2, David says that the Lord’s “love,” “faithfulness,” “word,” and “name” are exalted “above all things.” Clearly, the reason David seeks God before all other things is because God himself is greater and more excellent than all other things.
In Psalm 139, as David eloquently ponders the Lord’s loving and infinite omniscience and omnipresence, he says, “Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain” (6). Nonetheless, he continues, “How precious to me are your thoughts, O God” (17).
Although our minds can only scratch the surface of the endless mystery and glory of God’s greatness and goodness, David makes seeking God his highest end.
We are sorely tempted to seek after the fleeting, empty pleasures of this physical, temporal world. And so we discover what John Cougar Melancamp so honestly sang, “Oh, yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone.”
This doesn’t have to be our theme song, if God is our heart’s pursuit. We can sing like David: “The LORD will fulfill his purpose for me; your love, O LORD, endures forever” (138:8).
Kip
