Rachel Whisman

While driving to work one morning, I noticed myself reeling over the “what-if’s” that were trying to live rent-free in my mind. A downward cycle that promises anxiety rather than answers or relief. When I stopped at a red light, the thought came to my mind, “No, stop that.” and the verse from Psalm 27:8 accompanied it with, “You have said, ‘Seek my face.” My heart says to you, “Your face, Lord, do I seek.” Hide not your face from me.” 

Thinking on this verse, it reminded me how we are made to know the face of our creator, not our circumstances. Seeking the Lord and asking him for answers is not bad. He tells us to “Cast our cares on Him,” and “let your requests be made known to God,” and bring him our questions, concerns, and worries. Yet, with the humility to accept that He might not answer immediately. There is encouragement in Psalm 145:17 when it declares, “The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and kind in all his works.” He is kind in all his works, and his works might be a no…not yet, or yes.  

Every day, he gives us what is necessary for our faith. He supplies us with himself. If he gave us everything we wanted answers to, then where would be the need for faith? Dependence on him? Trust in his character? In our uneasiness when questions abound, there is a God who calls us to “seek His face.” His face is in Jesus Christ. He will not satisfy us with the things we are looking for outside of him, including the “what-ifs.” His wisdom is our protection, and his love is our guide. What he tells us to do, He will give us the means to do it by His Spirit and our obedience. Therefore, seek His face. 

“O Lord, my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great or too marvelous for me. But I have calmed, and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother, like a weaned child with its mother is my soul within me. O Israel, hope in the Lord from this time forth and forevermore.” Psalm 131

“The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of the law.” Deuteronomy 29:29