1 Chronicles 22:19 Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God; arise therefore, and build you the sanctuary of the LORD God… Let us take this exhortation — I. IN ITS REFERENCE TO GOD'S OWN PEOPLE. 1. What are they to seek? "The Lord your God."(1) By endeavouring to obey Him in everything. (2) In building up His temple. It should be the main object of our life to seek the Lord by building up His Church. (3) By doing everything to God's glory. 2. How are they to seek? "Set your heart and your soul to seek the Lord your God."(1) With fixity of purpose: "Set."(2) Have an intense affection towards God's service and glory. (3) With an energetic use of the intellect. We ought as much to speculate and scheme to glorify God as we meditate how to advance our business. (4) By the union and concentration of all our faculties. 3. When are we to seek the Lord? "Now." Now is the only time worth having, because it is indeed the only time we have. When did David mean by his "now"? (1) Now that they had an efficient leader — Solomon. (2) When God is with you. (3) When God gives rest. "Hath He not given you rest on every side?" II. IN ITS REFERENCE TO THOSE WHO ARE CONVERTED. 1. Set your heart on true religion, and be not content with the outward form of it. 2. Seek the Lord Himself. 3. Seek Him at once with all your heart. ( C. H. Spurgeon.) Parallel Verses KJV: Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the LORD God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of the LORD. |
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