Your vital need

You have said, Seek My face [inquire for and require My presence as your vital need]. My heart says to You, Your face (Your presence), Lord, will I seek, inquire for, and required [of necessity and on the authority of Your Word]. Psalm 27:8 AMP

What is your vital need? Here are some of the definitions of 'vital' from the Oxford Concise Australian Dictionary:

• Essential to the existence or functioning of a thing 
• Indispensable
• Paramount
• Vital power - the power to sustain life

There can be so many things in our life that we deem 'vital', especially in the Western World. What happens if these things are taken away from us? What if we don't have a home? our family? our health? What becomes our vital need? What or who do we turn to?

God wants us to turn to Him. To Seek His face, His presence and draw life and strength from Him. 

Seek, inquire of and for the Lord, and crave Him and His strength (His might and inflexibility to temptation); seek and require His face and His presence [continually] evermore. Psalm 105:4 AMP

Often it is not until one, some or all of these things we deem vital, are taken away from us, that we realise how vital our relationship with Jesus is. We are put in a position, through circumstances, that afford us the opportunity to return Jesus to the correct place in our lives, the Lord and Saviour of our life. 

Because if you acknowledge and confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and in your heart believe (adhere to, trust in, and rely on the truth) that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.  Romans 10:9 AMP

Sometimes this acknowledgement of Jesus can move from 'front of mind' as 'life' bombards us. Today, let's make a conscious effort to put Jesus front and centre, acknowledge that His presence is our vital need. Let's take time to seek His presence today, our Lord who we are called to love with our whole heart.

And you shall love the Lord your God out of and with your whole heart and out of and with all your soul (your life) and out of and with all your mind (with your faculty of thought and your moral understanding) and out of and with all your strength. This is the first and principal commandment. Mark 12:30 AMP