“One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in His temple.” Psalm 27:4.
God brought to my remembrance something today, that we will have to take a bit of trouble to enjoy the Lord’s beauty.
Someone said, “How is it, I have known the Lord so many years, but I don’t know Him any better than I used to?” I could not tell him.
Later I noticed Psalm 27, and was struck by the word seek. Also “The soul of the sluggard desireth and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.” John the Baptist was thus taken up with the Lord.
If the Lord should ask the question, “What seek ye?” what would we answer Him? Would it be “To get on in the world”? Some could not honestly say, “I want to be near Thee.”
Mr. McIntosh had a large family. While sitting in his study one day, one of the children, a little tot, ran into his room and said: “Me want to be with you.”
I would know the Lord better if I had been seeking after Him. “Seek, and ye shall find.” To seek His beauty—out of this grows service.
I have found myself asking the Lord to help me to serve Him, instead of going after Him for His own sake (John 20:10-17).
Jesus said to Mary, “Whom seekest thou?” She gets into service after her seeking. She was not seeking for power for service, she wanted Himself.
May we learn to seek Him for His own sake. If the Lord does not satisfy our hearts, we will seek for something else.
“Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” Matthew 6:33.