In his Sermon on the Mount, Jesus urged us to seek first the Kingdom of God. The psalmist affirms: "Lord, I seek your presence." And we respond: "I long to see your face, O Lord." The Kingdom of God is God's presence in our world for it was present in Jesus, Where God is present, there must be light rather than darkness, peace rather than war, joy rather than sadness, as the story of Elijah in the cave describes so powerfully. God was not in the strong wind, the earthquake, or the fire. But that is the Old Testament, and in the New Testament we have Jesus' promise that he is with us until the end of the world. Unfortunately we are living through a "piecemeal third world war", as Pope Francis calls our present situation and it is hard to imagine where God is present. So we have to seek God in the turmoil of our present world: we have to seek God, whose face is so often hidden. Our hope is in the command and the ensuring promise: "seek and you shall find, for the one who seeks will always find." [Mt 7:7-8].