Seek The Lord’s Face Not Just His Hand

-March 25, 2025-

Good morning beloved, happy Tuesday,

“Seek the Lord and His strength; seek His face evermore.”

(Psalm 105:4).

Seeking the Lord is the best thing we can do today. God is so pleased when we desire to spend time with Him in worship, praise, and thanksgiving. This is why the anonymous psalmist says, “Seek His face evermore.”

It is so easy to seek His hand more than His face. Too often we spend most of our prayer times making requests. Sometimes in life people only come to you when they need something. How do feel? Wouldn’t it be great if they came around just to say hi and see how I am doing? How must the Lord feel when all we do is ask, ask, ask.

Nothing is wrong with supplication for our needs, we should ask, but our most first thoughts and priorities should be to praise Him for who He is. This question we should ask ourselves, “Do I seek the Lord’s face or His hand?” Psalm 27:8 says, “When You said, ‘Seek My face,’ My heart said to You, ‘Your face, O Lord, I will seek.’”

The first words of the Lord’s Prayer in Matthew 6:9-10 are, “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” When we come into His presence and seek His face, our focus becomes the Lord not ourselves.

Let us always remember who the Lord is and what He has done for us. The Lord knows what we need even before we ask. Have a blessed day. Stay safe and healthy.

Of the ten lepers cleansed by Jesus, only one returned to give thanks and fall at His feet.

Dean