I've been thinking...

I've been thinking, thinking about how short this life is. The Bible tells us that our lives are like a vapor (James 4:14), here and gone. But do we live like that? Do we live to make every moment on this earth count? Do we live to joyfully make God known to this broken world? I know that I don't.

It's hard, we're prone to get caught up in routines, schedules, just everyday life, thinking that we've got plenty of time to tell people about Jesus in the future. But we don't, and even if we did, I'd want to spend everyday of my life sharing God's glorious name and story of redemption to people. 

So this is my plea, I am earnestly praying that God would help me to love people more, that He would make me bold. I am praying that throughout this I will be spirit led and I am praying for you, praying that God would give us the desire to do this together.

And so I challenge you, go out and pray for someone you don't know, believer or unbeliever, they need your prayers. Go out and tell a friend or stranger about the gospel, so that God can bring about hope. He will use you! Remember that God has commanded us to do these things. He has commanded us to go out and make disciples (Matthew 28:19). Therefore, when we do not do this we are sinning, being cowardly disobedient children. So lets come together and live out God's command in unity. Let's live as God has called us to, being bold children of God reaching out to those in need for someone to call them His beloved.

I am praying this not only for you, but for myself. May we be spirit led every step of the way. May we allow our fear of rejection and craven hearts to wholly surrender any doubts or fear that we may possess, fully knowing that God has prepared every good work for us already. (Ephesians 2:10) Let's be filled with the spirit in unity and let our lives be the overflow of that.

Hungry Hearts

The more I seek to understand people, their hearts and just humanity in general, the more I realize how desperate and inclined we are to want. There is an insatiable yearning to attain more and more, always. We pursue that more by doing things we believe will make us happy. We hunger for that happiness and it drives our every pursuit.

There are many examples of this throughout history, the first, and I think one of the best example is from the very beginning. We look at Adam and Eve, who are living with God's presence before the fall, before any reconciliation was even necessary. They lived in peace with God and there was no sin. Yet, they wanted more and they tried to attain more by being disobedient to God. In the end, it led to a fallen world full of lost people who need to be rescued.

Because everyone seeks for the more. Whether you are old, young, rich, poor, healthy or sick, we all want more and we complain when we don't receive it. It is a universal dissatisfaction that has continued for centuries. Even if we could attain everything we think we could ever want and need, our hungry hearts would not be satisfied. All that we crave is so vast we cannot attain it ourselves. This shows us that we were not made for earthly things, things that soon will perish. This clearly shows us that we are unable to reach satisfaction by our own efforts. The only way the worldly hunger we experience will vanish is when Christ invades our hearts, and all of the emptiness our hearts possess. Then and only then will we rest in the satisfaction of Christ.

Also, whats beautiful about our hungry hearts is the simple fact that God designed them. When we become believers and our hearts start to crave, we pursue Christ and we can feel satisfied. And although that satisfaction is complete, if we crave more, God can graciously give more. When our hearts hunger and we pursue more of God, we get more of God and that is amazing.

May we pray that our every deepest desire would be to want more of God and that our lives would display that, all for His glory.