Saturday, April 11, 2015
I Have Awakened In Your Heart A ...
I HAVE AWAKENED IN YOUR HEART A Strong Desire To Know Me. This longing originated in Me, though it now burns brightly in you.
Before you knew Me, you tried to find life in many different places. Often you would think you had found what you were searching for - only to be disappointed later. After you became thoroughly disillusioned, I reached down and took you into My own family. Later, you began thirsting for Me, longing to know Me at a deeper heart level. You set aside time to meet with Me as your living God - vibrantly present with you.
When you set out to know Me more intimately, I rejoiced but I wasn't surprised. I had been pursuing you long before you began your quest. I was working in your life experiences, as well as in your heart, mind, and spirit. Your desire for a closer walk with Me grew out of my painstaking work in you. I initiated your longing for Me, and your response delights Me.
It is important for you to know Me as the Initiator in our relationship. If you think it is your spiritual disciplines that keep you close to Me, you are at risk. Some days you may skimp on your time with Me or not be able to concentrate well. If you're depending on your own efforts to stay near Me, you will feel distant from Me at such times. But if you are relying on Me - what I have done, am doing, will do - you know My Love for you is always assured. So you can rest in Me: trusting in My unfailing Love, flourishing in My abiding Presence.
- Jesus
(Jesus Lives / Sarah Young)
Scripture Insight: Psalm 63:1; Psalm 42:2; John 15:5 and Psalm 12:8
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"O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water"
ReplyDelete(Psalm 63:1 / New International Version)
"My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?" (Psalm 42:2 / New International Version)
"I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing"
(John 15:5 / New American Standard Bible)
"But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in God's unfailing love for ever and ever" (Psalm 52:8 / New International Version)