Do you Really Want God?

Do you know what its like to be in love with God? Or does such language scare you? To be so in love with God that He has arrested your thoughts, saturated your speech, and directed all your actions? Do you know what its like to wake up with God on your mind and to go to bed with Him in your heart?

Have you ever panted for God? Have you ever hungered and thirsted for God? Have you ever been love sick for God to the point that nothing else matters? Has your soul ever yearned for God? Or is such language contrary to your theology?

When you sinned against God, did you feel like dying because you knew you had just hurt the heart of God? When it felt as if God had withdrawn, as if His presence had departed, did you weep? Did you call upon God like a child drowning in the ocean? Or did you not even notice?

Have you ever tasted and seen that God is good? That He is better than any earthly treasure or pleasure? Have you ever experienced His fullness of Joy and partaken of His eternal pleasures? Have you ever known that love of God that surpasses all understanding? Or are you waiting till you die and get to heaven to know and enjoy God? Are you to busy enjoying the fleeting pleasures of this world that you don’t even know what it means to enjoy the Creator of all pleasure? Shame on you!

Are you anxious and troubled about many things, not knowing the “one thing” which is needed? Dwelling in the presence of the Lord ought to be a present reality, for eternal life begins on earth in the heart. This eternal life is to be lived out and unpacked now, for as Jesus tells us it is the intimate knowing of God. Have you learned to seek after that One thing, that you might gaze, know, and experience the beauty and glory of the Lord?

If under the old covenant Moses asked God to show him His glory why do we not do so every day in the New? Are we that detached from the reality and presence of God that we do not long to see His glory as new born infants longing for milk? If we do not ask for more of God it may be that we have never tasted any of God.