Recently the Lord has been revealing the importance of the heart to me. The heart gets overlooked so often and I am just slowly realizing how often I overlook my own heart. It is so easy to just think or speak with our mouths without our hearts. One morning during “quiet time” God just placed Psalm 27 right in front of me. This scripture literally became so real to me as I just read over and over again the words. In verse 8 it reads “When You said, ‘Seek My face,’ my HEART said to You, ‘Your face, Lord, I will seek.” To actually grasp what that is saying is incredible. What would it look like for my HEART to seek God’s face? I am yearning for my heart to seek God’s face. I want my heart to be like David’s when he was writing this book of the Bible. I want my heart to be strengthened by God. As I continued through this particular chapter, the last verse was so huge. “Wait on the Lord; Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say on the Lord.” We have to be patient and wait on the Lord. I described my heart as a treasure that I feel I have buried and hidden from myself and I just want to be able to find it. Then Matthew 6:21 was brought to my attention, “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” By this point God is completely blowing my mind. There is this beauty, this treasure when your heart is truly pure and seeking God’s face. It isn’t easy to find treasure, but that is the beauty of finding it. There is no coincidence in Psalm that the word “wait” is often with the word “heart”. When we wait for Christ, our hearts are being shaped and molded in our persistence and patience. God will strengthen your heart if you wait on Him. When our hearts are strengthened we can truly learn what it means to say with our hearts “Lord, Your face, I will seek.” So my prayer for the rest of my life is this- I will never be satisfied with my heart and when I find one treasure it leaves me craving the next.
