Jan 23 - Seek the Lord While He Wishes to be Found

Come let us seek the Lord
While he wishes to be found
Oh that today you'd hear his voice

Let us cast off every sin
that would keep us from this place
Oh that to day we'd seek his face

Seek His face
Seek His face
Let His beauty change this place

You said seek my face
Your face Lord I will seek

-Scripture Medley from prayer

After singing some of these lines from Psalm 27, one of the persons at pray asked that God would change this place, this body, these eyes, heart, mind. Change me. Change this place with your beauty Lord.

Another, "We have often invited the holy spirit into our lives, but like a bad host. Once he has shown up to minister to us, we show him to a side room and do not properly pay him the attention he deserves or give him the time that is required to really go deep into our souls and change them."

There are several who have felt a call for more purity from entertainment such as TV, Sports Radio, or Fast Food. God has been working in these areas and freeing up those resources of time, money, and energy for his praise and worship.

We lamented over the misplaced desires in our lives. God, as one theologian has put it, can be the pure purpose of our desiring. We have instead turned our desires, our affections, to things that can not sustain their expectations. Instead of feeling satisfied we are constantly in search, constantly seeking after something new. After a while, we even come to acknowledge the futility of our quest and begin to just seek novelty in any form we can find it. Sometimes, in our repentance, we have tried to kill our desire all together because we have believed that desire is a sin in itself. We have burnt the nerves that once longed and lusted after sinful activities because we thought the wanting was bad. But God wants to redirect our desires towards him. Or to "seek his face" as we had been singing with the psalmist.

At times, human desires have become the most corrupt where they are the most mysteriously beautiful. In human sexuality and marriage, which Paul tells us has spiritual manifestations and is a reflection of Christ and the Church, desire has grown so strong, insatiable, and uncontrolled, that it has destroyed lives and families. We prayed that those who have lost control of their sexual desires would be cleansed and discipled by the Holy Spirit. He created the world out of chaos, he can certainly reform the chaos of our lives.

Gaze upon the beauty of the Lord; let his beauty change your place.