Wanting God
Lent is a good time for us to ponder the subject of wanting God and ask ourselves how much do we want Him and hunger after Him. The following scriptures can help us focus our attention on this:
Psalm 42: 1-2 – “As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? ”
Matthew 5:6 – “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.”
Philippians 3: 7-11 – “But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.”
These verses challenge us to consider how much do we really want God and maybe ask ourselves:
- Do we truly thirst for Him?
- Do we desire God more than anything else?
- Do we consider everything else rubbish compared with the greatness of knowing Christ?
I found the following prayer recently entitled “Prayer for those who want to want God.”
Amen!
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