Dave’s Monday Blast – October 28, 2019
In Psalm 42:1 we read, “As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God.” INTENTIONAL Men of God know that this declaration of David should also be ours. I find it interesting though that our Heavenly Father longs to meet with us with the same passion.
This life is marked by a single choice: who or what will we center our lives around? This choice takes each of us down a path of decisions that shape who we are, what we feel, who or what we value, and what we will have accomplished at the end of our days. To center our lives around ourselves or the things of this world leads only to destruction. But, to center our lives around meeting with God fills each moment with the glorious abundance of God’s love, provision, and transcendent peace.
First15 comments, ” We serve a God who constantly, sweetly, and powerfully pursues us. Revelation 3:20 says, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.” God is knocking on the door of your heart right now. With a gentle fall breeze that moves sweetly across your face, with every beautiful sunrise, with every breathtaking star in the sky, God is declaring his love for you.
God pursues us in any and every way he can. The greatest desire of His heart is for communion with His people. So it’s in knowing and receiving His overwhelming affections for us that our hearts will be stirred to meet with Him. It’s in taking the time to notice His constant pursuit of us that we will naturally begin to center our lives around meeting with Him.” That’s good isn’t it!
The reason that we should center our lives around meeting with God is because at the center of His heart is this deep, insatiable longing to meet with us. Imagine, the Creator of the universe, longs to continually and consistently meet with you. I love the song by Tauren Wells entitled Known. One line reads, “Fully known, and loved by You. You won’t let go, no matter what I do. It’s not one or the other, it’s hard truth and ridiculous grace to be fully known and loved by you.”
We were made to be known and to know our Heavenly Father. We are created to walk with Him every moment of every day. It’s not that we “should” center our lives around meeting with God, it’s that we were created to and must.
I encourage you to finish this time of devotion by reading and meditating upon Song of Solomon 7:10 and John 15:16.
