Journey to the Cross
“I seek you, I seek you.
With fire in my heart.
I seek you, I seek you.
Receive my adoration.
I long for you. I need you.
I love you more than my being.”
Marcos Witt, “Yo te busco” (I Look for You), on the album El Encuentro (The Meeting), 2002.
God! My God! It’s you—I search for you! My whole being thirsts for you! My body desires you in a dry and tired land, no water anywhere. Yes, I’ve seen you in the sanctuary; I’ve seen your power and glory. My lips praise you because your faithful love is better than life itself! So I will bless you as long as I’m alive; I will lift up my hands in your name.
Psalm 63:1-4
King David wrote this Psalm in the middle of the desert, far from comfort and surrounded by hardship. Even so, his greatest desire was not water or food, but the presence of God: “My God, you are my God! I eagerly seek you, for I thirst for you…” To seek God means to value God above all else, to long for God’s presence more than anything else, even those things necessary for our sustenance. David not only desired God’s help, he longed to be with God and to enjoy God’s company and care. That is why he says, “Your love is worth more than life.”
Many times, we focus on what God can give us, but the greatest and best gift God wants to give us, and has for us, is God’s self. God’s loving presence sustains us, fills us with joy, and gives us new strength to continue forward no matter what desert we find ourselves in. When we understand this, our attitude changes: instead of just asking for things, we also invoke God’s presence to worship and bless God.
Juan L. Garcia
Question to Ponder:
What makes you seek God: your thirst for God’s presence, or your desire to obtain God’s blessing?
Omnipresent God, like the psalmist, help me to seek you with all my heart and to value your loving presence more than anything else. I want to live in your presence every day. Amen.
The Lord who loves you reminds you in Jeremiah 29:13, “They will seek me and find me, for they will seek me with their whole heart.”