American Reformation Church Prayer Journal 18
ARC Prayer Meeting
If you ask most people, what is their “one thing;” you would get a variety of responses. Most people want their “one thing” to be happiness, which is a fleeting and a temporary condition given the struggle of life. Some desire more money as their one thing. Others want their one thing to be freedom, peace, joy, balance, fulfillment, confidence, stability, and passion.
What is your “one thing” brothers and sisters? If you would boil down the one thing you think you need, desire, or seek to accomplish in life, what would that be? What would that look like in the real world? Even as Christians who love God and seek to love our neighbor as ourselves, there would be a plethora of replies.
The Psalmist in his great prayer, made known his “one thing” to the world. He stated, “One thing I have desired of the Lord, that will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the Lord All the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, And to inquire in His temple” (Psalms 27:4). This was King David’s one thing. Given the circumstances of your life, could you honestly say this is your one thing? If not, why not?
David by a force from within and difficult circumstances from without sought the Lord. He had to evaluate all his victories, defeats, joys, sorrows, achievements and failures and reduce it all down to one common denominator, the one thing. His heart’s desire, his constant seeking, and prayerful pursuit was threefold. He wanted to dwell in the house of the Lord all his days, he wanted to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in His Temple.
Most, when we think of the Lord, we think of His majesty, power, might, holiness, righteousness, love, mercy, grace, justice, wrath, and judgement. He is all this and more. I find it amazing that such a manly warrior as David would consider the Lord beautiful. He longed to gaze upon His beauty. How many desire that today? How many of us have grown cold, indifferent, cynical, skeptical, hard-hearted, and unconcerned? How many have lost their first love and need to come back and do their first works?
One thing is needful in such cases. David asked this “one thing” of the Lord during a difficult time in his life. The enemies of the Lord were seeking to hunt him down, eat of his flesh, and destroy his life (Psalms 27:1-3). In light of the battle one thing was truly needed. I pray to the Lord to dwell in the house of the Lord all his days, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in His Temple.
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