He Turns Toward
by Cathy Vinson |
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Oh,
to have the face of God turn towards us! W Spencer Walton knew it as the "sunshine of
His face." If He turns toward us, we know golden sunlight upon ourselves.
"To, to turn." Will He? "To, to turn" Biblically means to permit. If
God turns to a situation, He must be choosing for it. His face turned to us is what we
long for.
This must have been the heart's cry of the late Keith Green as he wrote..."Oh, Lord,
You're beautiful. Your face is all I seek. And when YOUR EYES ARE ON this child, Your
grace abounds to me."
Will we be able to leave immaturity and somehow proceed to maturity, a maturity that
exercises in the strong sinews and tendons of the Word and can discern good from evil (Heb
6:1-2)? How can we possibly do this, go on to these things? "This we will do if God
permits [turns to us]."
The choice of Authority. In the same way as Agrippa towards Paul, "permitting him to
speak" (Acts 26:1) and King Xerxes towards Esther, permitting her entrance, so the
choice of the Holy Potentate is at hand to turn to us.
May He turn to us. We may find this in "He said 'Seek you My face'; my heart said
unto You, 'Your face, Lord, I will seek" (Ps 27:8). |
