“God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.”
~Richard Holloway
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Too much of our time is spent chasing after fruitless things. Recall the desires of your heart that I invited you to think about last week. How do you go about trying to fill those? Too often it is with things that leave us feeling emptier than before. We enter meaningless or harmful relationships, indulge in destructive behavior, distract ourselves with busyness, or hide and escape from the world, ourselves, and God.
Is this to say that it is wrong to desire? To want? To long for, truly, deeply? Not at all. Saint Augustine said “The whole life of the good Christian is a holy longing. What you desire ardently, as yet you do not see…let us long because we are to be filled…that is our life, to be exercised by longing.” Jesus himself told us to ask, seek, and knock, and he would freely give. Maybe not immediately, maybe not exactly what we want, but the deeper promise is that he will satisfy us from his own hand.
We need to feel desire, otherwise we wouldn’t try to satisfy it. If we didn’t get hungry, we’d never eat; if we didn’t get tired, we wouldn’t sleep…if our hearts didn’t ache, we wouldn’t search for God.
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Hungry, I come to you
For I know You satisfy
I am empty, but I know
Your love does not run dry
Broken, I run to You
For Your arms are open wide
I am weary, but I know
Your touch restores my life
So I wait for you
So I wait for You
I’m falling on my knees
Offering all of me
Jesus, You’re all this heart is living for
So go ahead. Ask. Seek. Knock. He will open the door.
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