05/05/2022 – Day 067 – Psalms 27 – 29 / “Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name; worship the Lord in the splendor of his holiness.” Psalm 29:2 / What does “seeking His face” mean? (see 27:8)
What does seeking his face mean? Let’s look at 27:8 through 27:9: “My heart says of you, ‘Seek his face!’ Your face, Lord, I will seek. Do not hide your face from me, do not turn me away in anger; you have been my helper. Do not reject me or forsake me,, O God my Savior.”
It has been awhile, so I am turning here to brother Matthew Henry’s commentary (reference pg # 604:
“David fastens, in his thoughts, upon the call God had given him to the throne of his grace. My heart said unto thee (so it begins in the original) or of thee, Seek you my face; he first revolved that , and preached that over again to himself (and that is the best preaching ; it is hearing twice what God speaks once) — Thou saidst Seek you my face; and then he returns what he had so meditated upon, in this pious resolution, Thy face, Lord, will I seek. The opening of his hand will satisfy the desire of living things (cxlv. 16), but it is only the shining of his face that will satisfy the desire of a living soul, iv. 6,7. He owns he had deserved God’s displeasure, but begs that, however God might correct him, he would not cast him away from his presence. “O leave me not, neither forsake me; withdraw not the operations of thy power from me, for then I am helpless; withdraw not the tokens of thy goodwill to me, for then I am comfortless.” “Teach me thy way, O Lord! give me to understand the meaning of thy providences towards me that I may not do it with hesitation, but may walk surely”
And the stark flipside to Psalm 29:2 , is Psalm 28:5: “Since they show no regard for the works of the Lord and what his hands have done, he will tear them down and never build them up again.”
Soli Gloria indeed!