| “The house of the Lord” was where the Lord had said that “there will I meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat.” David’s desire then was to be in the Lord’s presence, to be in fellowship with Him. The same desire is expressed by Paul when he said “that I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death,” and “I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” Many of us who know the Lord have a desire to go with the Lord, to “grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,” but, unlike David, we do not constantly “seek after” such fellowship. We allow ourselves to be “choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life.” If we would “follow on to know the Lord” in intimate fellowship, we must continually “seek those things which are above.” |
