What are the things in this life that satisfy you the most? It might be a person or relationship, a thing or a situation, or one or many things. Yet for the Christ follower, the best and most important is God Himself.
We were made for relationships. Go back to the beginning of time when God created the world and Adam. Genesis describes for us all that scene, and there are two things that stick out that humankind, you and me, desperately need.
We need God and need not to be alone. On the human side God created Eve after he created Adam so that man would not be alone. Adam also was made for a relationship with God. That is the deepest relationship. It is a the level of the soul.
Yesterday I shared from Psalm 103 where David said that he worshipped and blessed God from deep in His soul. It is in the soul where our deepest longings are found. Listen what David said satisfies Him.
Psalm 63:1 NLT
O God, you are my God; I earnestly search for you. My soul thirsts for you; my whole body longs for you in this parched and weary land where there is no water.
Thirst. Hunger. Longing and desire. God was at the soul level. It was the deep desire of David’s soul to need God.
We need God. That is our reality and the truth for all humanity. We all need God each and every day. It is not until we realize that and seek God and our soul will find what we really need.
How do we seek God? Colossians 3 gives us great insight.
Colossians 3:2-3 NLT
Think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth. 3 For you died to this life, and your real life is hidden with Christ in God.
What you focus on and think about matters. Move on a little further.
Colossians 3:14-16 NLT
Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds us all together in perfect harmony. 15 And let the peace that comes from Christ rule in your hearts. For as members of one body you are called to live in peace. And always be thankful. 16 Let the message about Christ, in all its richness, fill your lives. Teach and counsel each other with all the wisdom he gives. Sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs to God with thankful hearts.
What we put in our lives matters. In fact what we hunger for is typically seen in what we focus on and what we allow in our lives.
Seek God and focus on heaven, on what lasts. That is God. Let the love of God, the peace of Christ and the Word of God so fill you that you come to know and long for what David was talking about in that first verse.
May we thirst for, search for and find satisfaction in our great and gracious God!
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