Psalm 27:8 You have said, “Seek my face.” My heart says to you, “Your face, Lord, do I seek.”

Gesenius’ Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon indicates the Hebrew word pānîm is not singular and requires two faces, one turned to face the other. This is clearly indicated by God’s description of His relationship with Moses in Exodus 33:11 and the people could see the change in Moses’s appearance. ref. Exodus 34:35

John 1:18 No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.

John 4:24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

The God that sat at the Father’s side has made Himself known so that man could see Him face to face.

Numbers 6:26 the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.

The same word is used for both face and countenance, pānîm. Once again the title Lord applies, not God, God the Father, Lord God, but simply Lord, Jehovah = “the existing One”.

The One that exists and was seen by man face to face is the Lord, Jesus Christ. The Lord ascended to the throne thousands of years ago. How can we seek Him face to face?

John 20:25 So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and place my finger into the mark of the nails, and place my hand into his side, I will never believe.”

Jesus hinted to Thomas of a future Thomas could not imagine.

John 20:29 Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

We are blessed to be able to seek His face, His countenance, because we seek Him with our heart just like in Psalm 27:8.

Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

We seek Him by faith, we see Him by faith. Like Moses we are changed because we see Him.

Genesis 2:25

And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.

We were not created to be ashamed. Nor were we created to be proud.

We were created to be with God and not to think about ourselves. Just being in His presence was enough. He provided for all our needs.

Then the liar comes along and whispers in our ear, “you can be more”. That is the moment we started thinking about ourselves. Selfishness was born and sin took root.

Then sin, after it has taken root, spreads. Why did Eve give Adam that fruit? The nature of sin is to share, it wants fellowship, and drags everyone it can into the field of selfishness. Sin never exists alone, it either has a co conspirator or a victim. In one sense Eve’s temptation was at the root of pride. “I ate and I did not die.” Never mind the fact that she had no idea what death was, pride is ignorant of consequences. It can only see itself.

In the beginning there was only one command, do not eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. There was no power in the fruit to reveal good and evil, only in the disobedience of the one and only command, don’t.

Since then the don’t commands grew to 613. One command wasn’t enough. We had to be told what else displeases God. One command could not cover it all. The truth is that one command was enough, we just didn’t know how to obey Him.

Deuteronomy 6:5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

We have thousands of years of history of mankind’s vain attempts to love God with all our hearts and have seen the consequences of those failures.

Just to prove to mankind that it could be done, God Himself stepped down off His throne and became a man, a selfless man, who loved the Father and humbled Himself to the point of death.

The secret is in dying to self.

How is that working for you?

See! What we think of ourselves does matter.