1 CHRONICLES 16:11
Seek the LORD and His strength; Seek His face continually [longing to be in His presence]. (Amplified Bible).
Psalm 105:4
Seek out the LORD and His strength; seek His face always.
Isaiah 63:1
A Psalm of David when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God; Early will I seek You; My soul thirsts for You; My flesh longs for You in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water.
God's people are always hungering for more of God. To see His face and His glory is the hope of every saint. When we seek God's kingdom, as He tells us to do (Matthew 6:33), we are seeking an audience with our King, a one-on-one moment, where we not only see Him clearly, but also hear Him quite plainly.
To seek God's Kingdom is to believe that His plan of salvation through the sacrifice of His only begotten Son JESUS CHRIST on the cross, and then to have Him go through hell via death and the grave in order to conquer them once and for all, is to seek a personal intimate relationship with JESUS CHRIST. It is the most important love relationship a person will ever encounter.
HEBREWS 6:11
But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.
It takes wisdom to seek this CHRIST of whom so many have a limited knowledge, or even awareness of. It takes an inner determination to dig into The Word of God and find JESUS. All we have to do is ask. God reveals Himself and opens up our understanding of His Word, when we are earnestly seeking to know Him.
Matthew 7:7, 8
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened unto you.
For everyone asking receives; and the one seeking finds; and to the one knocking, it will be opened.
God wants us to know Him better. God wants us to live with Him forever. But unless we believe that JESUS CHRIST IS LORD and repent of our wicked ways; turn from participating in the sins we once took delight in, and begin to focus our lives and hearts on what pleases God, we will never gain the eternal presence of God.
When we die, not everyone goes to heaven. And the saints of God who do die before Christ's return, do not become angels. That is angel worship. Who we are inside these bodies will go with us into death. The body will perish, but the soul is eternal. If that soul is saved, it will live forever with God. If that soul is not saved, it will die forever in hell and the lake of fire afterwards.
Seek God. Seek Him now. Now is all we ever have to seek God. Let us read His Word and go to Him in prayer. Together.
SEEK FIRST - Jason Upton
