"When you
take your stand on the finished work of God in Christ, and begin to drink at
the River of Life and eat the Bread of Heaven, and know that you have found the
end of all your longings, you only get hungrier for God. The more satisfaction
you experience from God, while still in this world, the greater your desire for
the next. For, as C. S. Lewis said, "Our best havings are wantings."
The more
deeply you walk with Christ, the hungrier you get for Christ . . . the more
homesick you get for heaven . . . the more you want "all the fullness of
God" . . . the more you want to be done with sin . . . the more you want
the Bridegroom to come again . . . the more you want the Church revived and
purified with the beauty of Jesus . . . the more you want a great awakening to
God's reality in the cities . . . the more you want to see the light of the
gospel of the glory of Christ penetrate the darkness of all the unreached
peoples of the world . . . the more you want to see false worldviews yield to
the force of Truth . . . the more you want to see pain relieved and tears wiped
away and death destroyed . . . the more you long for every wrong to be made
right and the justice and grace of God to fill the earth like the waters cover
the sea.
If you
don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not
because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled
so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and
there is no room for the great. God did not create you for this. There is an
appetite for God. And it can be awakened. . . . "(A
Hunger for God, 23)
Take a huge bite out of what God has in store for you. I promise you won't be disappointed.
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