psalm 105,seeking God wednesday 1st week

Today we read psalm 105, our responsorial psalm today.  The second stanza of our psalm enjoins us to look for the Lord and to seek to serve him.  To look and to seek.  Do we need to look for God?  The answer is no and yes.  No, because God is omnipresent – God is everywhere and it means that he is always with us.  No, also because Jesus Christ said that he will be with us even till the end of time.  Jesus promised that he will never leave us alone, that he will never leave us orphans.  It is in this sense that we do not need to seek him.

But we also need to seek him because there are times in our lives, and these times are many, when his presence is not manifested, that is, his power, his love, his care, his guidance and direction become unperceived by the eyes of our hearts.  Unperceived because probably they are not valuable to us, they are not beautiful, they are not loving.

In the Eucharist we are always greeted with the phrase "the Lord be with you."  It is not a statement of fact but a wish.  It is a wish because the Lord be with you means – may you see the Lord more clearly in your day to day life, may you perceive his loving and caring presence everyday of your life, may you see him in your joys and in your sadness, may you perceive his presence in the good that you do and even in your mistakes and in your lapses.  May you see God in your day to day experience, may you see God's footprints as you look back into your life and search for his loving, caring and directing presence.

It is in this sense that we must seek the Lord.

Even Jesus needs the time to seek his Father.  He prayed, probably in praying he searched his memory, he recalled his experiences – experiences of God's presence in his day to day life.  At the same time Jesus sought the Father in his plans, in the events of his life and in his future actions.  So like Jesus always seek the Lord.  Make it always a habit to seek the Lord at all times.