Who I Am In Christ Devotionals

  Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his face always. Psalms 105:4 (CSB) Always--that’s one of those easy-to-zoom-by words. We toss it around like so much change in our pockets.  Always. What does the Psalmist mean when he says it?  I’m going to go out on a limb here, but I think he means it. He means always: in all things, in the good times and in the bad, continually.  Seek his face. I’m not about to say I understand the fullness of what that means. I know I only get a little piece of it. I get this though… It’s relational. It’s not like sending a text or an email. It’s talking. It’s heart to heart. It’s conversational. It’s face to face. It’s wanting to be in His presence now. First the verse says, “Seek the LORD.” One Hebrew scholar defined the word seek like this… The Hebrew word is “dārash, "seek with care," that is, because you care" about someone or something, "examine, inquire" about something, then "seek," often, "seek to kno...

Seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. Deuteronomy 4:29 Ask and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Matthew 7:7-8 My seeking is motivated by my pain. I have not been a seeker. I've been a waiter. I've waited. But God is changing me. I am becoming a seeker. Little by little. My seeking comes out of my own pain at first. Then, the Lord opens my eyes and I see more. Do I seek with all of my heart and with all of my soul? Sometimes, I think. But the Lord is seeking me. And I am responding more and more. He is calling and I am not turning a deaf ear; I am listening. Now. Today. I am asking. Today. Right now. I repent for not seeking in the past. And now, I am asking. Now, I am seeking. Today, I knock. Everyone who asks, receives. And the Lord says that EVERYONE w...