Time to Seek the Lord

Time to Seek the Lord

'It is time to seek the Lord, till He come and rain righteousness upon you' Hosea10:12

The Word of God has many wonderful promises and many are as much for today as when they were first spoken. This is one of them. This is as good a Rhema Word for today’s church as any other throughout the pages of scripture. It says, as do the vast majority of promises, IF . . . . THEN. IF you take the time to seek the Lord, THEN He will come and rain righteousness upon you.

To put this into today’s context, if we were to seek the Lord today, and press in to seek His face and not His hand, then He will pour out His bowls of righteousness on us making us His presence and His aroma for the entire world to sit up and take notice. A little poetic licence perhaps but that’s how I see it.

We have become a generation of “Gimme, gimme” pray-ers. We have become the generation that seeks His hand first before anything else. Our faith is at such a low ebb that it is as if we need the reassurance of His giving to us to convince us of His continuing love for us. Instead of, in faith, seeking His presence and His face, knowing His love for us, we seem to timidly seek His hand, hoping He might just notice us and favour us.

Yet this scripture flies in the face of our faithless timidity calling us to simply seek His face. Jesus even confirmed it when saying that we should seek ‘first the Kingdom of God’ – and all the things we seek, (righteously), will be given to us.

But there is something more to all of this and that is a comment about righteousness. It may even be God’s own definition and that is to stand humbly in before Him, carrying first the aroma of His presence, and secondly carrying the total desire and commitment in our hearts to be His ambassadors to a fallen world. There can be no arrogance about us; no pride in our own righteousness; no air of right-ness (I am right you are wrong). Humility must be His seal upon us or we will come across to the world as hypocritical and bigoted as everyone else who claims to be the sole arbiters of correct, even Biblical Christianity.

So, if we humbly seek His face, then He will honour our seeking and pour out His righteousness upon us. Then, we will be properly ready and prepared for His use in reaching a fallen world.

Let the harvest begin.