Seeking God

During this pandemic, it is very important to seek God, our creator more and more. David, the Psalmist, had a great thrust for God. Psalm 63 clearly narrates David's passion for God.

This psalm, coming out of the depths of David's life, and it would be an injustice to pick the psalm apart while missing the feeling that it conveys. But while keeping the depth of feeling in mind, it is helpful to separate out three strands of what it means to seek after God:

O God, You are my God; Early will I seek You; My soul thirsts for You; My flesh longs for You. In a dry and thirsty land, Where there is no water.
So I have looked for You in the sanctuary, To see your power and your glory.
Because Your loving kindness is better than life, My lips shall praise you. .Thus I will bless You while I live; I will lift up my hands in Your name.
My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness, And my mouth shall praise You with joyful lips.When I remember You on my bed, I meditate on You in the night watches.
Because You have been my help, Therefore in the shadow of Your wings I will rejoice. My soul follows close behind You; Your right hand upholds me.

Seeking God means to have an intimate personal relationship with God

"O God, you are my God." David knew God in an intimate, personal way. There is a vast difference between knowing about a person and actually knowing that person. We can learn a lot about a leader. We can read news articles and books on his life. We can learn all about his personality, his personal habits, and his family life. But it is still not the same as knowing him personally.

To know a leader personally would require an introduction or occasion to meet, and then spending hours with him over a long period of time in many situations. As the relationship developed we would begin to discover more and more about the man, not from an academic standpoint, but as a close friend.

That's how it must be with God, if you want to seek Him. There must have been a time when you met Him personally through Jesus Christ. Jesus said in John 17:3, "This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent." Your introduction to God comes when you turn from your sin to God and trust in Jesus Christ and His death on your behalf. He gives you eternal life as His free gift.

'Seeking after God' means that you are seeking to develop an intimate relationship with the God whom you have met personally through His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Seeking God means to desire more of him

David said, "I shall seek you earnestly; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh yearns for You...." Didn't David have the Lord? Yes, because he calls Him "my God." But he wanted more. He wanted to go deeper. He was satisfied (63:5), but he wasn't satisfied. He knew that there was more and his whole being craved it as a thirsty man in the desert craves for water. 

To seek after God means to go after God with an intense desire. To seek after God means that there is always more, because God is an infinite person. David had walked with God for years, but he thirsted for more.

Seeking God means to pursue God alone to fill the vacuum in our lives

David has fled from the throne. He left his possessions and his wives behind him. His own son whom he loved was attempting to kill him. And yet in all of this, David wasn't seeking for any of those things to fill the vacuum in his life. He wasn't praying, "O God, give me my wives back. Give me my palace back. Give me my kingdom back." But rather, he prayed, "I shall seek You"; "my soul thirsts for You"; "my flesh yearns for You"; "Your love is better than life."

To seek Him means to pursue Him alone to fill that God-shaped vacuum in your life. Seeking after God means to have an intimate personal relationship with Him; always to desire more of Him; and, to pursue God alone to fill the vacuum in your life.

Let us review our lives by asking, "Did my schedule reflect that seeking God was my number one priority?" We may say, "Well, that's my priority, but I've been under a lot of pressure!" Pressure is what reveals our true priorities.