CONFIDENCE COMMUNION COMPASSION COURAGE
PART II
Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek." How do we answer God's gracious invitations? He is calling. He offers, "Seek ye my face." To be perfectly honest, there are many times when we may answer Cod by saying, “ I am awfully sorry, but I am too busy. There is no time right now. Perhaps later in the day, or maybe I can do it tonight." You see, it is one thing to say with your mouth that you want to seek the Lord and yet it is quite another to do it actually with the heart. Re gardless of what others might do, David was avowing that he would individually seek the Lord. This whole section reminds us of the pre-eminent fact that God is w ill ing and does desire to be known. Jeremiah 29:13 also reminds us, "And ye shall seek me, and find
Coming to verse seven, we enter the second section of this portion of Scripture, the tribulation of the saints. Here is a prayer filled with agony and pathos. David had the experiences which readily come. We have seen the spiritual pendu lum swing from praise now to prayer. Notice what the Psalmist is declaring, “ Have mercy also upon me." I am glad he did not set the pattern by asking for justice. When as Cod's children, we fail, the one thing we need desperately is mer cy. The reason for this is that mercy implies failure. The difficulty is that too often we do not commune with the Lord, agonizing in prayer. We are more interested, naturally, in His blessings. The rest of the time we fret and worry. Notice the gracious invitation of verse eight, “When thou saidst,
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