Psalm 27:8 When you said, Seek you my face; my heart said to you, Your face, LORD, will I seek. The law of creation and of salvation are one, one thing. Both are a process of generation — regeneration. The sun's face and the earth's face must be brought together, in full relationship, and then creation is inevitable. So God's Spirit and man's spirit being brought face to face, the new creation of the soul is inevitable. The sun says to the planets, "Children" — for they are all children of the sun — "seek ye my face." The planets reply, "We will; thy face will we seek. We are cold, dreary, bloomless, barren, we will seek thy face." And forthwith they climb, and climb, a six months' climb from January to June, to the zenith, to the meeting face to face. What then? All that summer and harvest means follows. It is a parable of the soul's salvation. But it is only a parable: infinitely greater and more glorious is the summer which results from the direct relationship of the spirit-face of God and the spirit-face of man; the all-giving face of an infinite Creator, Lord, Father, Saviour, and the receiving faces of His sons and daughters. The most god-like centre of all the glory of God is His own human face. It creates all faces, the angels; for the face of an angel is one that has been so long receiving God's glory that it has become lovely. The face of God is "the express image" of His personality. Your face is not your person, but I see what sort of person you are by your face. Face to face relationship means the exchange of personal thought and feeling, friendship, closest intimacy. All the beauty in the universe comes from the light of God's face. The face of God, the personal face of the personal God, is the meaning of the universe and man. The power that comes from that we call Christ. And He is in every heart. So that the dear mother in the interior of Africa when she was first told about Christ, said, "Oh, that is the name that I have seen in my dreams, one that loves me and comes to me; the beautiful man of the heavens." And God says, "Seek ye My face" at the time that our heart is most disposed to hear it. In your sorrow; at death. (J. Pulsford.) Parallel Verses KJV: When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.WEB: When you said, "Seek my face," my heart said to you, "I will seek your face, Yahweh." |
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