‘And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me, and I will offer in his tent sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing and make melody to the LORD. Hear, O LORD, when I cry aloud; be gracious to me and answer me!’ Psalm 27:6-7
I can cry out to the Lord – the One who hears the desire of the afflicted inclines His ear and strengthens their heart (Ps 10:17). I desire to be pulled from my circumstance, He desires to lift my head (Ps 3:3), to gaze upon His beauty (Ps 27:4).
‘You have said, ‘Seek My face.’ My heart says to You, ‘Your face, LORD, do I seek.’ Hide not Your face from me. Turn not Your servant away in anger, O You who have been my help. Cast me not off; forsake me not, O God of my salvation!’ Psalm 27:8-9
It is only as He lifts my head that I am even capable of seeking His face because ‘no one seeks for God (Rom 3:10).’ But He does not hide Himself, He has said ‘You will seek Me and find Me, when you seek Me with all your heart (Jer 29:13).’
‘For my father and mother have forsaken me, but the LORD will take me in.’ Psalm 27:10
I could be surrounded by enemies or forsaken by my own flesh and blood, but He has not left me an orphan, He has come to me (Jn 14:18). The One who knit me together in the womb of my mother, in whom I live and move and have my being, is the stronghold of my life (Ps 139:13, Acts 17:28, Ps 27:1).
God, when our circumstances are difficult and painful, would you lift our gaze to see and seek You? In Christ’s name, amen.
Seeking,
AB