When we enter into HIS Presence, nothing else matters!
As you and I pursue entering in HIS Presence, our priorities become fully aligned with HIS.
King David understood this when he recorded the revelation by The Holy Spirit in Psalm chapter 27:
4 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.
This is the one thing David craved from YAHWEH, the one thing he sought above all else: he wanted to live with HIM every moment in HIS House, beholding the marvelous beauty of YAHWEH, filled with awe, delighting in HIS glory and grace.
Moses had this revelation as well.
Moses recorded by The Holy Spirit in Exodus chapter 33:
7 Moses took his tent and pitched it outside the camp, far from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of meeting. And it came to pass that everyone who sought the LORD went out to the Tabernacle of meeting which was outside the camp
9 And it came to pass, when Moses entered the tabernacle, that the Pillar of cloud descended and stood at the door of the Tabernacle, and the LORD talked with Moses.
10 All the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the Tabernacle door, and all the people rose and worshiped, each man in his tent door.
11 So the LORD spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. And he would return to the camp, but his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tabernacle.
The LORD treated Moses as a friend!
12 Then Moses said to the LORD, “See, You say to me, ‘Bring up this people.’ But You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found grace in My Sight.’
13 Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your Sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your Sight. And consider that this nation is Your people.”
14 And HE said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
Moses wanted nothing less than to have the Presence of THE LORD with him at all times while traversing the wilderness toward the Promised Land.
King David recorded by The Holy Spirit in Psalm chapter 103:
7 He (THE LORD) made known His ways (relationship) to Moses, His acts (activity) to the children of Israel.
There is a clear distinction between knowing HIM and seeing HIS acts. It is all about relationship. How are we to pursue a closer relationship with THE LORD?
It is written by The Holy Spirit in Psalm chapter 100:
4 Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, And into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His Name.
The gates represent the doorway or entrance into His courts.
We give HIM thanksgiving for what HE has provided for us, whether healing, restoration, finances, etc. In praise, we honor HIM for being The Provider, HIS personality, HIS nature. When GOD reveals an aspect of HIS nature, it always comes with an invitation for an encounter with HIM.
My deepest desire is to be in HIS Presence, and I trust it is yours as well. All of the answers to life’s challenges are found in HIS Presence.