We do not have the account of the time or place when the Lord told David, “Seek My face”. However, his testimony points to the fact that such conversation took place. It is good enough that David responded positively to the invite. Scripture abounds with proofs that the secret of men are in the secret place! In another of his psalms David said, “I was made in secret” (Psalm 139:15). Those who were made were never made in the street, it was always in the secret. The making of Moses was not in Pharaoh’s court; it was when he tended the flock of his father-in-law in the wilderness of Sinai.
Not even the Lord Jesus made His great impact without courting the secret place. There were times He departed to solitary places and would not want anyone to know of His whereabouts. Undue exposure can drain you! Learn the value of abiding in God’s presence. In our previous meditation, we saw where Jesus commended Mary’s choice of abiding in His presence to learn. The grace of God is so fundamental to our evolution, and there is no better place to appropriate grace than in solitude. Horatius Bonar has a wonderful quote to this effect: “In order to grow in grace, we must be much alone. It is not in society that the soul grows most vigorously. In one single quiet hour of prayer it will often make more progress than in days of company with others. It is in the desert that the dew falls freshest and the air its purest”.