Posted on June 22, 2009 at 8:41am.
If you follow my blog (thanks to you who do) you know I have been trying to wrap my mind around thirsting after God. Psalm 27 has been such a huge piece of my thinking. Here is verse four as Peterson puts it in the Message.
“I’m asking God for one thing, only one thing: To live with him in his house my whole life long. I’ll contemplate his beauty; I’ll study at his feet.”
My hope is that today we will sit at his feet and drink in Jesus.
Posted on June 18, 2009 at 7:08am.
Question - Are you satisfied with your walk with Christ? This is not a trick question, I honestly wonder if we live many days like we have enough of Jesus. If that is true, then it goes a long way in explaining why their is little if any deeper thirst for Jesus. I know that it would be hard and certainly arrogant for any of us to say we had all of Jesus we needed, but does the way I live my life validate that it is true? I have only met a handful of people who aren’t satisfied and long for there to be more. Strangely after spending time with them my thirst level goes up.
Posted on June 17, 2009 at 11:59am.
I’m not sure any of us know how bad we really are. We look around and compare, usually to people who are decidedly worse than we are, we minimize our sin. The longer you are involved in the Christian sub-culture the more you get quite good at it. However the real problem with viewing myself that way is not the obvious answer. It is the fact that the love of God and the depth of the costliness of the cross gets trivialized. Deep down in those places that we rarely go and never vocalize to others we live like the cross might just have been an over-reaction. You see I’m just not that bad. When I think that way the need to develop a deeper thirst for God will most likely never cross my mind.
Posted on June 16, 2009 at 8:12am.
Sin is an ugly word and an even uglier reality. So often we try to stamp it out with renewed efforts, only to end up exhausted and sin still lurking. I have been thinking about it recently and wondering if our usual approach is misguided. Perhaps my efforts need to be directed toward desiring a deeper thirst for Jesus.
“If anyone thirsts, let him come to me (Jesus) and drink.” Sin is ugly and it takes effort to keep it away - the question is where do I focus my efforts?
Posted on June 13, 2009 at 6:53am.
David, in Psalm nine makes a straightforward statement - “I will tell of your wonders.” What a wonderful challenge for every day, to tell of the wonders of God. Each of us can do that, to speak of the great things that God has done in our lives. Why not today tell someone else of just one wonderful thing God has done for you.
