In Psalms, chapter one hundred and five, verse four, we are invited to seek the Lord’s presence and the power and strength of His grace. We all need God’s empowering grace to persevere in salvation, live a life pleasing to the Lord, and witness the power of the Holy Spirit, as in Acts one, verse eight, and chapter two, verse four. Believers must look to God and His grace daily, or we will face spiritual weakness and defeat. Therefore, we must stir ourselves up constantly to seek Him earnestly with our whole hearts and to expect signs of his presence and power in our lives.
To find and know God in His fullness, the individual must seek with passion and wholehearted devotion. Knowing God and experiencing His power, blessing, and righteousness of His kingdom do not come so easy. That will happen only to those who diligently seek God, as in Hebrews eleven, verse six, and desire His nearness, the fullness of His Spirit, and His gift of eternal life.
In Second Chronicles twenty-six, verse sixteen, King Uzziah (Azariah) says, “But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.” The King of Judah failed to realize that all he had accomplished had been with the help of God, as in verses five and seven of this chapter, and other people, in verses eight, eleven through thirteen of this same chapter. The years of Uzziah had times when he sought the Lord and was unfaithful, and these years turned out to be his downfall.
Seeking the Lord for believers today is crucial because if we do not, we can experience what this King did by doing wrong activity in the sight of God. “Watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak,” of Matthew twenty-six, verse forty-one.